• Lindsey Bever
• 2m ago

One police officer is dead and another injured after another police shooting in the US.

• Paul McGeough
• 1h ago

For two candidates who have been part of the American consciousness for decades, there's a bit of a political orphan in each.

• Jewel Topsfield

The fate of 10 death row prisoners saved from the firing squad in Indonesia remains unclear.

• Georgina Mitchell

Hillary Clinton has accepted the nomination and in a rebuke to Trump, declared "we are not afraid."

• ANALYSIS
• Paul McGeough

Hillary Clinton is wagering that voters can have real doubts about her and yet still vote for her to become the 45th president.

• Amrit Dhillon

The latest Indian census figures show one ethnic group is hurtling towards extinction.

• Jessica Camille Aguirre and Weedah Hamzah

One of the assailants who executed a French priest during Mass has appeared in an IS video calling for more violence.

• Jewel Topsfield

Despite pressure from human rights groups and doubts pointing to death row prisoners being innocent, Indonesia has carried out planned executions overnight.

This is a transcript of Hillary Clinton's speech, as prepared for delivery at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia:

• Colin Cosier

The baby boy is too young to know why his mother called him "Destruction of the World".

• New York Times reporters

About 477,000 sworn officers serve in roughly 12,000 police departments across the United States. This is one day.

• Philip Bump

Donald Trump was speaking at an event in Iowa, complaining that America was not allowed to waterboard terrorists, when Khizr Khan and his wife walked up to the microphone at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

Leader says the change is to deny foreign powers including the United States and Russia a pretext to attack Syrians.

South Korean police said Thursday that the North's main intelligence agency had stolen the personal data of more than 10 million customers of an online shopping mall in the South, in what they said was an attempt to obtain foreign currency.

• Ben Blanchard

China and Russia will hold "routine" naval exercises in the South China Sea in September, China says.

• Megan Levy

A seven-year-old girl has died in a freak accident at a Moroccan zoo when an elephant threw a rock that struck the child in the head, the zoo has confirmed.

An explosion in an apartment in a residential area of Malno in Sweden prompted road closures and a bomb squad investigation .

• Shayla Love

A new study finds that the distress experienced by many transgender people comes from the social stigma, not from being transgender.

Asked if he was indeed being sarcastic, Mr Trump snapped, "Of course I'm being sarcastic."

• Anthony Faiola

"Fear cannot be the guide for political action," Ms Merkel said.

• Matt Bungard

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's appearance on Reddit for a Q&A; session ended with the billionaire answering just a handful of questions.

• ANALYSIS
• Michael Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis

12 years ago to the night, Barack Obama had offered Americans a vision. This time he asked them not to abandon it.

• ANALYSIS
• Paul McGeough

It was the night the first black president gave his blessing and passed the baton to she who would be the first female president.

• Jewel Topsfield

Shocked family of death row prisoners wept on hearing they would face the firing squad 24 hours earlier than expected.

• Josephine Tovey and Georgina Mitchell

The president and vice president made forceful cases for Hillary Clinton and against Donald Trump.