Forensics teams from the Netherlands say they have so far positively identified 173 victims of flight MH17, which was shot down over Ukraine.

American journalist Peter Theo Curtis, freed after nearly two years in captivity in Syria, makes a statement to the press.

Israeli minister Yuval Steinitz says the country "seriously considered" a full military reoccupation of Gaza.

California has been hit by its worst drought in a century and many say the problem is only going to get worse.

Over 130 business leaders have written a letter in the Scotsman newspaper saying the case for Scottish Independence "has not been made".

A number of Black Hawk helicopters were left covered in foam after a fire drill went wrong at a US military base in Oklahoma.

The BBC's Quentin Sommerville in Gaza City explains how day-to-day life is beginning to return to some kind of normality following the ceasefire agreed by Hamas and Israel on Tuesday.

France's newspaper front pages lament the country's 'crisis in the regime' as prime minister Manuel Valls is expected to form a new government.

Migrants from Africa and the deputy mayor of the town on the French coast on what to do with refugees at Sangatte camps in Calais.

A new law has been passed meaning that smartphones in California will be required to come with a "kill switch" to render them useless if lost or stolen.

With falling milk prices, companies are looking at other ways to make money, and Mengniu Dairy, China's biggest, has recently decided to venture into the yoghurt business.

Many people in China are forgetting how to write their own language.

A group of Russian soldiers captured in eastern Ukraine crossed the border "by accident", Russian military sources are quoted as saying.

Ukraine's president has called snap elections, as fierce fighting continues between government forces and pro-Russians.

Police in Brazil say rioters in a jail in the southern city of Cascavel have killed five fellow inmates and injured several others.

The US was "caught off-guard" by air strikes against Islamist militia in Libya, a senior official has told the BBC, as Rana Jawad reports from Tripoli.

Malaysians have observed a moment of silence following the arrival in Kuala Lumpur of the bodies of 20 Malaysian victims of Flight MH17, which crashed in Ukraine in July.

The Mexican government has unveiled new measures to prevent migrants from Central America travelling on the roofs of freight trains heading north towards the US.

Two farmers in Tasmania have found a sheep they believe has been wandering wild and for six years and never been shorn.

Many women who have fled the fighting in North Waziristan find they have to go against tribal customs at the relief camp to get access to food and medical facilities.