The United States and Japan have struck a deal to lower the hefty tariffs President Donald Trump threatened to impose on goods from its Asian ally.

Police have used tear gas to disperse angry students in Bangladesh after an air force fighter jet crashed into a Dhaka school and killed 31 people, at least 25 of them children.

The US Justice Department has released more than 240,000 pages of documents related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

British police will not take any action against Irish rap group Kneecap following an investigation into comments made by its members during a recent performance at Glastonbury.

Israeli tanks have pushed into southern and eastern districts of the Gazan city of Deir al-Balah for the first time, where Israeli sources say the military believes hostages may be held.

American actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played Bill Cosby's son Theo on the 1980s TV hit "The Cosby Show," has died at age 54 by drowning.

China says construction has begun on what will be the world's largest hydropower dam, on the eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau, at an estimated cost of at least $US170b.

Residents reported calm in Syria's Sweida after the Islamist-led government announced that Bedouin fighters had withdrawn from the predominantly Druze city.

Two people have died and five were missing in the South Korean county of Gapyeong today.