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.