Today's World News covering, Africa, Europe, Middle East

Two men claiming to be members of Islamic State (IS) have killed an 84-year-old priest in an attack at his church in a suburb of Rouen in northern France.

Nineteen residents have been killed in a knife attack at a care centre for people with mental disabilities in Japan.

Such attacks are extremely rare in Japan - the incident in Sagamihara, west of Tokyo, is the worst mass killing in decades.

Bernie Sanders has urged Democrats to put Hillary Clinton in the White House, in a speech to the party convention.

The Vermont senator received a three-minute standing ovation when he took the stage in Philadelphia.

A 14-year-old girl died Sunday in another case of a lower-caste woman allegedly being raped by the same man twice in India.

Over 150 people have been reported dead after floods and landslides swept through the north and central China with scores missing and hundreds of thousands displaced.

An 18-year-old German-Iranian dual national who lived in Munich is to be the gunman behind the death of nine people and injuries to sixteen people.

U.S presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton has finally settled for 58-year-old senator Tim Kaine as her running mate after Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Senator Cory Booker failed to make her final cut list.

At least nine people have died after persons carrying guns attacked at Olympia mall,  a shopping centre in the German city of Munich.

The African Union has launched a new passport. A lot remains unclear about the document but here is what we do know:

What is the African passport?

Despite promising "the truth, and nothing else" in his convention speech, Donald Trump presented the nation with a series of previously debunked claims and some new ones Thursday night -- about the U.S. tax burden, the perils facing police, Hillary Clinton's record and more.

Close to a thousand protesters stormed the headquarters of the ruling ZANU-PF party on Wednesday to demonstrate their support for the government following anti-Mugabe protests which have rocked the country this month.

Fox News has parted ways with its news boss Roger Ailes after accusations emerged he sexually harassed female employees although he maintains his innocence.

Five suspects have appeared in court in France charged with terror offences in relation to the Nice truck attack.

The four men and one woman, aged between 22 and 40, are accused of helping driver Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel prepare the terror attack.