Women over 21 can now apply for a passport without a male guardian, but other restrictions remain.

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

Once hunted to near extinction, North Atlantic right whales are now facing new human threats.

A battle of wills between an eagle, a fox and a rabbit was one of the more astonishing entries in the Audubon Photography Awards.

American 'Meokbang' YouTuber Blove became a millionaire by having people watch her eat.

Who are the world's "microworkers" who make everybody's digital lives possible?

An Indian man gets 100 calls a day after actress Sunny Leone read out his number in a popular film.

Doctors who refuse to perform abortions are becoming a barrier to women's rights to have terminations.

Have you been paying attention to what's been going on over the past seven days?

Preliminary figures suggest last month's global temperatures equalled or narrowly beat the previous record.

The Lib Dem win in Brecon and Radnorshire gives new PM Boris Johnson a working majority of just one.

South Korea is fiercely opposed to the move, which Japan says is due to national security concerns.

An inquiry is under way after Saoirse Kennedy Hill was found dead at the Cape Cod family compound.

The US withdrawal from a Cold War intermediate nuclear missile pact raises fears of a new arms race.

An Indonesian court instead jails Félix Dorfin for 19 years, his lawyer and media say.

The decision to strip Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez of the IBF middleweight title is "an insult to boxing", says promoter Oscar de la Hoya.

She has to pay a portion of the $2.7m settlement out of her own pocket.

One of the centres was bombed last month and is close to where Libya's rival governments are fighting.

Computer modelling used to spot irregular heartbeats even after heart rate has returned to normal.

Europe's main indexes fall more than 2% after the US President announces taxes on $300bn of Chinese goods.

Stephanie Frappart will become the the first woman to referee a major European men's football match at the Uefa Super Cup on 14 August.