Surveillance cameras sitting on top of over 100,000 lampposts in Singapore could soon help authorities pick out and recognise faces in crowds across the island state.

Talk of a potential constitutional crisis resurfaced, so did rejoining the TPP, and bipartisan group of congressmen put together a bill to protect special counsel Robert Mueller and Donald Trump cancelled his trip to Peru, because, Syria, ostensibly. So, it's been a quiet week, writes Zoe Daniel.

As the WHO says some 500 people showed signs of exposure to toxic chemicals following shelling on a Syrian town, the US President responds to Russia's claim it would shoot down any US missiles fired in retaliation for the alleged attack.

Drive over the rumble strips near the Dutch village of Jeslum and the road will play a tune — but local residents are not happy, saying the "cacophony" is keeping them awake at night.

The plane, which was carrying soldiers, crashed in a farm field in northern Algeria soon after take-off, officials say.