Torrential rains could bring damaging floods to the Carolinas, Georgia and Virginia.

German club Ripdorf stepped onto the pitch, kicked the ball away and then stood on the sidelines.

Tottenham come from behind to beat nine-man Lokomotiv Plovdiv in Europa League qualifying.

New figures show "alarming rates of transmission across the region", the UN body says.

The military officer had just been sentenced for murder when relatives hauled him out of the dock.

Prosecutors say Jerry Harris enticed an underage boy to produce sexually explicit videos and photos.

Armand Duplantis produces the highest ever outdoors jump in the pole vault as he leaps 6.15m at the Diamond League meeting in Rome.

Canadian police said both front seats were fully reclined as the car drove at 150km/h.

Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood of England are two strokes behind first-round leader Justin Thomas at the US Open.

Goals from Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Hakan Calhanoglu give AC Milan a 2-0 win over League of Ireland side Shamrock Rovers in their Europa League qualifier.

A team of scientists say this explains why those stung feel intense pain lasting for days or even weeks.

The 2020 Ig Nobel prizes honour crocodilian vocalisations, narcissistic eyebrows and vibrating worms.

A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond.

Life has returned to normal for many in Singapore, but one group of people still remain in lockdown.

A few weeks of nationwide restrictions to slow a second coronavirus surge could be introduced.

A visual guide to the wildfires ravaging California, Oregon and other western states.

Scientists are warning about the consequences of vast swathes of ground thawing in Siberia.

The US president relied on over-65s to win the White House in 2016 but their support this time is not assured.

Some call them copyright trolls, but these companies say they defend photographers' rights.

How closely have you been paying attention to what's been going on during the past seven days?

Reports of under-age marriage and child labour rose as the lockdown pushed people deeper into poverty.