Depp severed finger in Australia: UK court
Hollywood star Johnny Depp wrote on a wall with blood from his severed finger tip during a long and violent confrontation with his ex-wife Amber Heard in Australia, London's High Court has heard at his libel case against a British tabloid.
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UK, Australia launch probe into Clearview
Privacy watchdogs in Britain and Australia have opened a joint investigation into facial recognition company Clearview AI over its use of personal data "scraped" off social media platforms and other websites.
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WHO evaluation report out in November
Members of the World Health Organisation will draw first conclusions about the global handling of the coronavirus pandemic in November, the UN agency says.
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England to allow gyms and pools to open
Theatres in England will be able to hold outdoor performances from this weekend and beauticians can reopen next week in a further easing of the coronavirus lockdown, culture minister Oliver Dowden says.
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Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen behind bars again
Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, has been taken to a federal jail after refusing to agree to a gag order as a condition of serving his criminal sentence under home confinement, Cohen's lawyer says.
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Swedes jailed for Danish tax office bomb
A Copenhagen court has found two Swedes guilty of bombing the Danish tax agency and sentenced them to five and four years' jail respectively.
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More mystery elephant deaths in Botswana
Botswana wildlife officials investigating hundreds of unexplained elephant deaths have verified six more carcasses and say it is still not clear what is killing the animals, around two months after the first bodies were spotted.
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Congress can't get Trump records: US court
The Supreme Court has kept a hold on US President Donald Trump's financial records that Congress has been seeking for more than a year.
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Leifer's defence sues Israeli prisons
The new evidence in an appeal against alleged sex offender Malka Leifer being mentally fit for an extradition trial is said to have come in response to her lawyers' bid to sue the Israeli Prison Authority.
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Australian Associated Press
