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Residents reported calm in Syria's Sweida after the Islamist-led government announced that Bedouin fighters had withdrawn from the predominantly Druze city.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

At least 67 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire as they waited for UN aid trucks in northern Gaza, as Israel issued new evacuation orders for areas packed with displaced people.

Sectarian clashes have escalated in Syria's Druze region of Sweida, with machinegun fire and mortar shelling ringing out as the Islamist-led govt struggles to implement a ceasefire.