Measles has killed more than 5,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since January, WHO says.

The US military says 2 service members have been killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

A panel of UN experts have found that the detention conditions of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi may have directly led to his death in June. 

"In the 1980s, CIA-recruited death squads were responsible for over 300,000 deaths in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala, countless thousands more brutally tortured, and millions forced into exile," writes Stephen Lendman.

Tehran is monitoring developments in Iraq with care and diligence, says the Iranian foreign ministry.

The number of US traffic deaths has risen to its highest level in nearly three decades, the US auto safety agency says.

The report said the figure was according to data provided by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights.

The number of vaping-related illnesses has surpassed 1,000, and there’s no sign the outbreak is fading, U.S. health officials said Thursday.

Three people have died and at least 222 others have been infected in Spain's largest-ever outbreak of listeria, WHO says.

Across the world, one person takes their own life every 40 seconds, and more people die by suicide every year than in war, WHO says.