• Emma Pinedo
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Barcelona soccer star Lionel Messi has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after a court in Barcelona found him guilty of three counts of tax fraud, a statement from the court said on Wednesday.

• Nick Miller

The UK chose to invade Iraq in 2003 without proper justification and without proper authority, based on flawed intelligence that should have been challenged but wasn't, according to the long-awaited 'Chilcot report'.

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote to US President George W Bush on July 21:

• Nick Miller

Tracing the key events that led to the invasion of Iraq by the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland.

• Marika Dobbin

South African Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius will spend the next six years in jail for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, bringing the curtain down on a trial that gripped the world.

• Alissa Rubin

The mastermind in a terror plot that Belgian police thwarted in 2015 was also the on-the-ground coordinator in the Paris attacks in November.

• Paul Burkhardt

Oscar Pistorius may return to prison on Wednesday when a judge hands down his sentence for murdering his model girlfriend.

• Dan Bilefsky and Christina Anderson

The Swedish police are investigating reports that dozens of young women and girls were sexually assaulted at two music festivals in Sweden last weekend.

• David Chazan

Potential terrorists can move too freely in the European Schengen open-borders area and member states should flag up suspects more systematically on a shared police database, a French parliamentary committee said on Tuesday.

• Stephen Castle

The front-runner to become Britain's next prime minister approaches her Type 1 diabetes like anything else in life.

Women across the world are coming out as proud to be "difficult" in support of the UK's Theresa May, one of two women vying to become the next British Prime Minister. 

Audio from the flight deck voice recorder of EgyptAir MS804 indicates an attempt to put out a fire on board the jet before it crashed into the Mediterranean, sources on the investigation committee said on Tuesday.

• Max Bearak

It is an image seared in the minds of war-ready and war-weary Americans alike.

"Theresa is a bloody difficult woman but you and I worked for Margaret Thatcher...," he said in the clip. It was not clear if he knew he was being filmed.

• Matt Zapotosky

Mr Comey said there was evidence to suggest a disregard of standing security protocols, but said the FBI findings determined that "no reasonable prosecutor" would likely bring criminal charges

US President Barack Obama has led an audience at the White House in singing Happy Birthday to his daughter Malia, who's turned 18 today.

Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage have shown a lack of patriotism in quitting ahead of the negotiations for Britain's withdrawal from the European Union, EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker says.

• Hugh Miles

A Saudi major has been detained after alleging that officials were smuggling drugs under cover of the Haj pilgrimage.

Despite their very local, Iranian themes, Kiarostami's films - including 1997 Palmes d'Or winner Taste of Cherry - struck a chord with global audiences.

• Andrew Marszal and Muktadir Rashid

A British hostage released by attackers during the Dhaka restaurant massacre is being interrogated by Bangladeshi police over possible links to the terrorists.

• Edward Wong

It all began with a fatal crash involving a black Ferrari and two scantily-clad women.