Two-time Nascar Cup Series champion Kyle Busch has died, aged 41.
The sudden passing of the Nascar legend, who was ninth on the circuit's all-time win list, was announced in a joint statement on Thursday by the Busch family, Richard Childress Racing and Nascar.
They did not share a cause of death. Busch's representatives had said earlier on Thursday that he had been sent to hospital with a severe illness.
The execution of a Tennessee death row inmate has been postponed after staff were unable to find a vein to administer a lethal drug.
Tony Carruthers, convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994, was set to be executed on Thursday.
But the state's Department of Corrections said that while its medical team did find a primary IV line to carry out the lethal injection, they could not find a suitable second vein to establish a backup line, which is required
The US secretary of state said Cuba had always posed a threat
Cuba poses a "national security threat" to the US and the likelihood of a peaceful agreement is "not high", US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said.
His comments come just a day after the US charged Cuba's former president Raúl Castro with murder over the 1996 downing of two planes resulting in the killing of US nationals.
Rubio said Washington's preference was "a diplomatic solution"
Hermès's exclusive Birkin bags can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars
Two luxury handbags confiscated from jailed Vietnamese businesswoman Truong My Lan have sold for more than $535,000 (£399,000) in a government auction.
Both found new owners in just 30 minutes of bidding - one of the white Hermès Birkin bags alone fetched $440,144, with the
The unrest highlights the struggle authorities face as cases of the virus rise
An angry crowd set alight a section of a hospital at the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after family and friends of a young man thought to have died from the virus were prevented from taking his body away for burial.
"They started throwing projectiles at the hospital. They even set fire to tents that were being used as isolation wards," local politician Luc Malembe Malembe told the BBC about the scene he witnessed
Many Cuban exiles in the US hope the Havana government is toppled
The US has charged Cuba's 94-year-old former president, Raúl Castro, with murder - stoking speculation that Havana could be next on Washington's regime-change list.
Amid a maximum pressure campaign that has led to the most significant fuel and energy shortages in Cuba in decades, a steady chorus of US officials is calling for the end of the island's 66-year-old Communist government.
The children were found by a driver on a road near the town of Alcacer do Sal
A man and a woman reported by local media to be the mother and stepfather of two young French boys found alone and in tears by the side of a road in southern Portugal have been arrested.
The children - both under five - were found by a driver near the town of Alcacer do Sal on Tuesday, police said.
They were carrying backpacks with food and water but no identity documents.