North and South Korea dismantle huge loudspeakers used to blare Cold War-style propaganda across their tense border, in line with an agreement on reconciliation after last week's summit.

A double to Karim Benzema helps send Real Madrid through to its third-straight Champions League decider following a gripping 2-2 draw with Bayern Munich in the second leg of their semi-final at the Santiago Bernabeu.

French riot police use water cannon and teargas to control some 1,200 hooded and masked protesters dressed in black, who turned up on the sidelines of the annual planned demonstration by labour unions.

Shares in Tinder's parent company crash after Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook is getting into the dating game, with a new service he says is "not just for hook-ups".

Britain has not identified the suspects who carried out the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, but is stepping up protection for other defectors who might also be at risk, the UK's national security adviser says.

The chief executive of UK supermarket giant Sainsbury's burst into song just hours after announcing the company will buy rival Asda.

A ni-Vanuatu boy who captured online attention after progressing into the final stages of a local surfing competition with an old, duct-taped surfboard is gifted a new board from a fellow surf enthusiast in New Zealand.

The priceless 16th-century casket containing Anne of Brittany's embalmed heart was stolen earlier this month, fuelling fears it could be melted down.

Former US president George HW Bush was admitted to hospital the day after his wife's funeral, where attendees included George W Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and current First Lady Melania Trump.

Alice Springs-based journalist Stephen Schubert is used to battling heat exhaustion and dehydration but it was hypothermia and frostbite he faced on assignment in Norway to report on the Doomsday Vault.

Mike Pompeo's path to Secretary of State is clear now he has narrowly avoided a historic rebuke by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But that's just the start: he'll inherit a department with plunging morale, writes Charles Edel.

Malaysian police say they are still hunting "two light-skinned suspects who are European or Middle Eastern" after a the assassination of a Hamas engineer suspected to have been working on weaponised drones.

Indonesian police say they have worked with the AFP to unravel a people-smuggling network that was aimed at bringing in fake Rohingya refugees to Australia.

The man suspected of killing four people at a Nashville restaurant allegedly used an AR-15 rifle that had previously been seized amid mental health concerns.

A former serviceman who was injured in an explosion in Afghanistan says he is recovering well after a highly experimental transplant last month that involved a 14-hour operation by Johns Hopkins University doctors.

Ray Martin goes inside a refugee camp in Bangladesh where an estimated 50,000 people are blind. Australia's Fred Hollows Foundation is trying to change that.

Mother and baby are doing well, says Kensington Palace, as a town crier announces the birth of a son for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge — the third child for Prince William and Kate and fifth-in-line to the British throne.

A Belgian judge sentences Salah Abdeslam, the prime surviving suspect in the 2015 Islamic State attacks on Paris, to 20 years in prison over a shootout with police in Brussels in 2016.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will have to strike the right balance between tradition and trend when it comes to naming their third child. They won't want to appear too old fashioned, but there are certain expectations they must uphold.

A professional chef running in the London Marathon dies after collapsing during the race as thousands of competitors struggle through the event's hottest year on record.

The world awaits an announcement of a royal baby after the Duchess of Cambridge is admitted to St Mary's Hospital in London in the early stages of labour.

More than a month after the revelation the actress who plays the Queen in Netflix's acclaimed series The Crown was earning less than her male co-star playing Prince Philip, Matt Smith addresses the pay disparity, saying they should be paid "equally and fairly".

The decision of the Aceh Provincial Government in Indonesia to move flogging from public into more closed spaces, such as prisons, draws resistance from the public and the local parliament.

A Canadian man who travelled to Peru to study hallucinogenic medicine is lynched in a remote corner of the Amazon rainforest, after he was accused by members of an indigenous community of killing a local spiritual leader.

Autopsies on the body of world-famous DJ Avicii reveal nothing suspicious about his death, local media is reporting.