Australian police seize drugs worth A$500m (US$526m; £335m) and break up a Hong Kong-based drugs ring, with seven arrests made.

Australia's Damien Hooper escapes punishment for wearing a T-shirt with the Aboriginal flag on it.

The UN Security Council expresses concern that drug trafficking in Guinea-Bissau has increased since the April coup.

Twitter users criticise the network's suspension of a journalist's account after he published an NBC executive's work email address.

At least 19 people are killed as two car bombs explode within minutes of each other in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, officials say.

Michael Phelps just fails to win men's 200m butterfly gold for third time in a row but still becomes joint most successful Olympian ever.

Madonna says the angry reaction from some at her recent 45-minute show in Paris was from "thugs who were not my fans".

Ann Pettway, who stole a newborn baby from a New York hospital in 1987 and raised her as her own, has been sentenced to 12 years in jail in the US.