Image copyright HKUST RADIO NEWS REPORTING TEAM Via Reuters Hong Kong police have come under fire after footage of officers tackling a 12-year-old girl to the ground near a pro-democracy protest went viral.
Police say the girl took part in an illegal gathering and officers used "minimum force" after she "ran away in a suspicious manner".
The girl's family say she was simply out to buy school supplies and
Image copyright Getty Images Beauty blogger and influencer Ethan Peters, known as Ethan Is Supreme, has died at the age of 17.
Ethan's father Gerald told Fox News : "He was a kind soul, who accepted everyone for who they were."
His friend, fellow influencer Ava Louise, also posted saying she'd lost her "best friend in the entire world".
Both have said that Ethan was struggling with addiction, but his official cause of death is not yet known.
India, which has been adding record daily totals, now has the world's second-highest tally.
Image copyright David PD Hyde The BBC's weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Laura Johnson and Zoe Proctor, founders of Zebedee Management, a talent agency that represents models and actors with physical and learning disabilities.
Zoe Proctor and Laura Johnson were walking along a beach when they came up with their business idea.
Laura, who is the partner of Zoe's brother, recalls how
Activist Sangita Iyer is on a mission to end the agony of ceremonial elephants.
Yemen is already facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis and the pandemic has not stopped the fighting.
Covid-19 is already the third-leading cause of death for African Americans this year. Why?
A video of a tongue-lashing one reporter recently received comes as no surprise, writes Mannir Dan Ali.
Based at Beirut's port, a small cash-strapped rowing team lost everything - apart from their lives.
More than 200,000 people have been ordered to evacuate areas of Japan threatened by an approaching storm.
Typhoon Haishen is expected to intensify on Sunday, bringing heavy rain, storm surges and winds of more than 100mph (160km/h).
It will move past Kyushu on Sunday, and is expected make landfall in South Korea on Monday.
It comes days after Typhoon Maysak, one of the