A near-completed apartment block has been burned to the ground in Houston, after strong winds whipped a small fire out of control, with one worker stranded on the top floor.
Three members of US president Barack Obama’s security detail in the Netherlands have been suspended and sent home, after one of the agents was found drunk in a hotel hallway.
Many improbable theories have been aired by news networks such as CNN about the reason for the disappearance of flight MH370, but in the most unlikely story, former US Vice President nominee Sarah Palin is reported to have told a Fox News reporter that the plane had gone “straight to heaven”.
New satellite images show 122 “potential objects” that could be from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in an area of the Indian around 2,500km from Perth, Australia.
Facebook has acquired Occulus VR, the creators of virtual reality headset Occulus Rift, for a reported $2 billion (£1.2 billion).