North America will bake in extreme temperatures amid celebrations for the United States' 250th birthday.

Weaker monsoon rains are likely to impact farm output but the government says it has enough grain stocks to deal with any shortages.

Energy grids and train services are among the vital services that are vulnerable to very hot weather.

Addiction treatment centres say more clients are coming for help with "out-of-control" phone use.

England coach Thomas Tuchel must now play his strongest hand as he enters the danger zone in a World Cup of shocks, says chief football writer Phil McNulty.

In the early 2000s, you were three times more likely to be assaulted in Scotland than in the US, but the country now ranks among some of the safest in the world.

During the 1962 Championships, a flash of pink knickers worn on court by Maria Bueno caused outrage at the venerable club. It wasn't the first, or the last, outfit to raise eyebrows.

Once called the "wildest woman in America", this fearless knife-wielding naturalist has lived off the land for 53 years, fighting to preserve Cumberland Island for future travellers.

Moving "from the slums to the exclusive salons", Brassaï captured the brothels, gay bars and backstreets of Paris's hazy night-time in its radical inter-war years.

Europe is in the grip of a record-breaking heatwave. To help stay cool, people in France have been turning to an unusual solution – chalk. Here's the science behind the trend.

Georgian-era artists used outrageous imagery to express their unfavourable views of King George III.

From a Soviet-era sanatorium to a floating market in Bangladesh, this year's World Food Photography Awards capture the many ways food shapes daily life around the world.