Pakistan election: Violence breaks out as voting gets under way
Violence has erupted as millions head to the polls in Pakistan, with at least 31 dead in the worst attack, a bomb in the city of Quetta.
Elsewhere, minor blasts and clashes between party workers left several injured and two dead.
Voters are deciding between the parties of the former cricket star Imran Khan and the disgraced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
But the campaign has been overshadowed by concerns of fraud and violence.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan says there have been "blatant" attempts to manipulate the polls.
Mr Khan has vowed to tackle entrenched corruption but his rivals accuse him of benefitting from alleged meddling by the powerful military, which has ruled Pakistan for nearly half of its history.
Swedish student's dramatic plane protest stops man's deportation 'to hell'
Elin Ersson refused to take her seat on flight at Gothenburg airport until man being sent to Afghanistan was removed
A lone student activist on board a plane at Gothenburg airport has prevented the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker from Sweden by refusing to sit down until the man was removed from the flight.
Elin Ersson, whose Facebook page says she is a student at Gothenburg University, bought a ticket for the flight from Gothenburg to Turkey after she and other asylum activists found out that a young Afghan was due to be deported on it, according to Swedish press reports.
As she entered the plane Ersson started to live-stream her protest in English. The video received more than half a million hits on Tuesday.
Trial of Viagra on pregnant women stopped after 11 babies die
Updated 0059 GMT (0859 HKT) July 25, 2018
Dutch researchers stopped a clinical trial due to the deaths of 11 babies from a lung disease after their mothers were treated with the drug sildenafil, commonly known as Viagra, while pregnant, Amsterdam University Medical Center announced Monday.
The mothers were part of a clinical trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the drug on unborn babies who had severe fetal growth restriction and who faced significant risk of being stillborn or dying after birth, according to a study that detailed the design and protocol of the clinical trial.
Novichok came in 'expensive' looking perfume bottle, victim Charlie Rowley says
The nerve agent that poisoned two people in Amesbury was packed in a sealed, brand-name perfume bottle, survivor Charlie Rowley told British media. He says he can't remember where he found the container.
Amesbury poisoning survivor Charlie Rowley gave the bottle which contained Novichok nerve agent to his girlfriend Dawn Sturgess as a gift, believing it to be perfume, according to interviews he gave to the UK's ITV and the mass-circulation paper The Sun.
Rowley said he had picked up the bottle, which "looked expensive" and was labeled as perfume, before giving it to his partner. However, he said he was unable to remember where had found the poison, telling The Sun it was "still a blur."
Talking to ITV, he said the bottle was inside a cellophane-wrapped sealed box and appeared to be unused. Rowley himself came into contact with the poisonous chemical while mounting a pump dispenser inside it and some of content spilled on his hands.
No water or electricity: why southern Iraqis are at a breaking point
Major protests have erupted in several Iraqi cities over the past two weeks due to water and power cuts. The movement started in the southern region of Basra, and then spread to Kerbala and Baghdad. Our Observers in Basra explain that the protesters blame corruption and poor management by the authorities for these cuts, which are particularly painful since Iraq is currently experiencing temperatures nearing 50 degrees Celsius.
“It’s not rare for us to go four or five days without a single drop of water coming out of the tap”
Hussein is 25. He lives in Basra and has taken part in the protests.
Two Mexican journalists killed in separate attacks
Number of slain media workers rises to eight in Mexico in 2018 after killings of Ruben Pat Cauich and Luis Perez Garcia.
Two Mexican media workers were murdered in separate attacks, bringing the total number of journalists killed in Mexico so far in 2018 to at least eight.
Ruben Pat Cauich was shot dead on Tuesday in a southeastern resort town on Mexico's coast amid increasing violence in the area.
Pat Cauich was the chief of Playa News Aqui y Ahora, a Facebook-based online news site run from Playa del Carmen in the coastal state of Quintana Roo.
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