A huge explosion has struck the Chinese city of Tianjin in north-eastern China.
Two further strikes will disrupt the London Underground in August, two unions have announced.
Two people have been killed and a third seriously injured in a knife attack at an Ikea store in the Swedish city of Vasteras, about 70 miles (115km) west of Stockholm.
A 14-year-old boy who stabbed a supply teacher in a racially-motivated attack has been given an 11-year sentence.
A Bangladeshi blogger has been hacked to death by a gang of six men armed with machetes in Dhaka, police say.