Some thrill seekers describe bungee jumping as a near-death experience, but few come quite as close as one man who managed to survive his cord snapping in Thailand.

The Israeli parliament on Thursday passed a law that would limit the ways a sitting prime minister can be declared unfit for office as part of a package of bills the government is pushing through in its controversial judicial overhaul.

A Nigerian senator was found guilty of plotting to harvest organs on Thursday, at the UK's Old Bailey Court, the Crown Prosecution Service said in a statement.