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US President Donald Trump says he aborted a military strike to retaliate for Iran's downing of an unmanned US drone because it could have killed 150 people.

Russia has begun releasing a group of almost 100 captive whales into the wild whose detention in the country's Far East since last year has caused an international outcry.

President Donald Trump has played down Iran's downing of a US military surveillance drone, saying he suspects it was shot by mistake.

A New York man accused of running a cult-like group in which women were kept on starvation diets, branded with his initials and ordered to have sex with him, has been found guilty of all charges.

An Australian sperm donor has been deemed by the High Court to be the legal father of a girl, preventing her moving to New Zealand with her mother without his consent.

Three Russians and a Ukrainian will face murder charges for the deaths of 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014.

The US has bolstered its case for isolating Iran over its nuclear and regional activities by displaying limpet mine fragments it said came from an oil tanker damaged in a recent attack, saying the ordnance looked Iranian.

International investigators are set to launch criminal proceedings against suspects in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine.