Charred homes, burned out cars - before and after images show Spokane wildfire destruction
Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated due to wildfires around Washington state's second largest city, Spokane.
City officials say 600 homes have been destroyed as of Monday.
BBC Verify has matched videos posted online in the aftermath with images of the same streets before the fires to assess the damage.
Produced by Mabel Pickering. Verification by Thomas Copeland and Jake Horton. Graphics by Mark Edwards.
US reports first two deaths linked to 'explosive diarrhoea' outbreak
Michigan health officials have confirmed the first two deaths linked to the ongoing cyclospora outbreak, a parasitic infection spread through contaminated food or water that can cause severe diarrhoea.
The two individuals had "significant underlying health conditions that may have been impacted by cyclosporiasis and dehydration", state health authorities said.
The foodborne illness has spread to 45 states, with nearly 7,000 laboratory-confirmed cases reported nationwide, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
While the outbreak has infected thousands
Russia says seven killed and 40 injured by Ukrainian drone hitting busy beach
A drone hit a busy beach in southern Russia, killing seven people including three children, local authorities have said.
In social media footage verified by the BBC, a drone can be seen hurtling towards a cliffside before crashing into a fireball on the beach below as tourists look on from the shore and in the water.
The total number of injured reached 40, with 17 people hospitalised, said the governor of the Krasnodar region Veniamin Kondratyev.
He accused Ukraine of "a deliberate strike on civilians". Ukraine has
Threat to oil tankers in Middle East worst since start of Iran war, analysts say
The threat to ships carrying oil in the Middle East is at its worst since the Iran war started, experts have said, after a spate of attacks on another key route in the region.
The warning comes after a number of attacks on vessels in the Red Sea, an alternative waterway that some tankers had been using since Iran blocked the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran has denied Donald Trump's claim that it was in talks with the US over reopening the strait, but said it was speaking to Oman about securing the
Russian anti-war politician says he has fled the country
In early 2024, Nadezhdin attempted to run as a presidential candidate on an anti-war manifesto, calling for an end to the hostilities in Ukraine.
At the time, he told the BBC that he was supported by "dozens of millions of people" who did not want "Russia to be in this track of authoritarianism and militarism".
He also said that if he was elected president his first task would be to "stop the conflict with Ukraine, and then to restore normal relations between Russia and
Rhine falls to record low levels as drought strains Europe's rivers
Serbia cut output at its coal-fired power plants due to the lack of water disrupting cooling systems, while Romania carried out a controlled explosion on a large rock on the banks of the Danube to increase waterflow to the Cernavoda nuclear power plant.
Two car plants in Romania run by Dacia and Ford have agreed to halt production for more than a fortnight to reduce electricity consumption.
Italy's longest river, the Po, hit a historic low near the northern city of Cremona in late July. Authorities raised the drought alert
Moroccan king's letter confirms naming of major highway in honour of Trump
A letter from Morocco's King Mohammed VI has confirmed that the country has named a major highway after US President Donald Trump.
Last week, in a social media post, Trump thanked the king for the honour, but there was not a parallel announcement from the Moroccan authorities.
But Morocco's state press agency has published a letter the king wrote to the president telling him that the name-change was taking place as "a personal expression of my high regard".
Formerly the Tiznit-Dakhla highway, the
Hundreds flee fighting in northern Ethiopia as fears rise of return to civil war
Hundreds of Ethiopians from the Tigray region have crossed into neighbouring Sudan following fighting between regional forces and the Ethiopian army over the weekend.
In one of the most serious confrontations since the end of the civil war in the area four years ago, intense clashes broke out on Saturday morning in Shererina, near the border with Sudan.
A member of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) said the violence, which continued into Sunday, involved heavy artillery and drones.
The two-year civil war in northern Ethiopian between
Todd Blanche formally withdraws Trump's 'anti-weaponisation' fund plan
Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche has formally withdrawn President Donald Trump's plan for a fund that could have been used to compensate people prosecuted over the US Capitol riot by Trump's supporters in 2021.
The move clears the way for Blanche to be confirmed by US senators to his job on a permanent basis.
Trump's Republican Party previously lacked the votes for this to happen because a pair of senators were not sufficiently satisfied by verbal assurances from Blanche that the planned fund was dead.
In a
Sudan army drone strike on court session kills 35, rights group says
Thirty-five people were killed in a drone strike by the Sudanese army on a traditional court session in the north of the Darfur region, a local rights organisation has said.
Dozens more were reported injured in Sunday afternoon's attack.
The Emergency Lawyers Group, which monitors violence against civilians, said the attack occurred in Ghara al-Zawiya village that is controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The army has not commented.
The RSF holds most of Darfur, in the west of the country,