Turkey has now fired or suspended about 50,000 people after a failed coup over the weekend as it intensifies its vast purge — battering the country’s security forces and many of its democratic institutions.

Experts are trying to work out exactly how a US carer has caught Zika after tending to a dying elderly man with the virus.

Donald Trump’s wife, Melania, took centre stage on the first day of the Republican National Convention but faced accusations that a portion of her speech plagiarised Michelle Obama.

Militants have attacked police guarding the largest Eid gathering in Bangladesh, throwing homemade bombs and launching a gun attack.

More than 180 people have been killed in flooding along the Yangtze River in China following torrential rain.

Two people have been detained over an attack on a cafe in the Bangladeshi capital that left 20 hostages and two officers dead on Friday, police say.