Vigils are held in Canada for victims of the Lac-Megantic train disaster, as officials say the number confirmed to have died has reached 33.

Children with cancer and volunteers make a portrait of former South African President Nelson Mandela with 5,000 cupcakes.

A six-year-old boy has been rescued after being trapped under a sand dune in Indiana for more than three hours, according to US media reports.

A cow falls through the roof in the Brazilian town of Caratinga, killing a man and narrowly missing his wife.

People in France are preparing to mark Bastille Day as investigations continue into the country's worst rail disaster for 25 years.

George Zimmerman, the Florida neighbourhood watchman who shot dead an unarmed black 17-year-old male, is found not guilty on all charges.

Cory Monteith, who played heartthrob Finn Hudson in the hit TV series Glee, is found dead in a Vancouver hotel, but police have ruled out foul play.

Sales of little-known crime novel The Cuckoo's Calling are rocketing after Harry Potter author JK Rowling was revealed as the book's author.