• Lindsay Murdoch
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​Thailand voted to accept a military-backed constitution on Sunday that will perpetuate the power of the country's generals and open the way for elections next year.

• Lia Timson
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An Irishman is in custody, his passport confiscated after being arrested at a Rio hotel accused of illegally selling Olympic VIP tickets.

Shahram Amiri disappeared during a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in 2009, and later surfaced in the United States.

Belgian police arrested a man with a machete in the eastern city of Liege, broadcaster VRT reported on Sunday.

• Kylie MacLellan

Prime Minister Theresa May wants to look at the option of paying residents directly rather than local authorities.

• Neil MacFarquhar

The 1945 disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi gas chambers, ranks among the most enduring mysteries of World War II.

Jailed South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been treated in hospital for injuries to his wrists but denies trying to kill himself.

Austria's foreign minister has threatened to block the expansion of negotiations with Turkey on its accession to the European Union, which could scupper a landmark migration deal between Brussels and Ankara.

• Jose DelReal

'She is a totally unhinged person. She's unbalanced. And all you have to do is watch her, see her, read about her'

• Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa

A community competition with a reward to catch crocodiles: what could possibly go wrong?

• Lindsay Murdoch

A leading archbishop in the Philippines uses Sunday sermons to lash out at President Rodrigo Duterte's crackdown on crime.

• Anne Barnard

In a Germany torn between embracing and fearing Syrian migrants, one musician is struggling to represent Syria to German audiences.

A machete-wielding man injured two female police officers before being shot in the southern Belgian city of Charleroi on Saturday.

• Stephen Castle

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• Lisa Barrington

Two rebel groups said on Saturday they had broken the siege of Aleppo after days of fierce fighting but doubts remain over any gains.

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An airstrike on a hospital in northwestern Syria on Saturday killed 10 people, including children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Singapore called for heightened vigilance on Saturday, a day after Indonesian police arrested a group of men they believed were plotting a rocket attack on the wealthy city-state with the help of a Syrian-based Islamic State militant.

• Jackie Calmes

Ronald Reagan's notions that policies that benefit the rich and big business lift all incomes now appear outmoded in a new era of rising wealth inequality and stagnant wages.

South Africa's ruling party was struggling on Saturday to retain control of two major municipalities after losing one other key urban area in its worst electoral performance since the end of apartheid.

• Elaine Ganley

A fire swept through a bar in the northern French city of Rouen overnight, killing 13 people and injuring six, after a birthday cake with candles and sparklers fell to the floor and set the carpet ablaze, police said.

A teenager charged with carrying out a knife attack in London which left an American tourist dead and five people, including two Australians, injured has been remanded in custody after appearing in court.

The Japanese city of Hiroshima has commemorated the 71st anniversary of the atomic bomb that killed hundreds of thousands of people at the end of World War II.

• Broede Carmody

The wife and girlfriend of a deceased New Jersey man have placed competing obituaries side-by-side in their local paper because they could not agree on how to phrase the 55-year-old's death notice.

• Nick Allen

Michael Morell said Mr Putin drew on his training as a career intelligence officer to manipulate the Republican presidential nominee from afar.