EPA By Frances Mao BBC News A few years ago, Cambodia’s ruler launched the most ruthless crackdown of his career to annihilate his opponents. Facing popular opposition, Hun Sen used the courts to dismantle the political party threatening his rule. Ranks of MPs were thrown out of parliament while the leaders were arrested. Having crushed…

Magnum Photos The White House has confirmed that Ukraine is using US cluster bombs against Russian forces in the country. National Security Spokesman John Kirby said initial feedback suggested they were being used “effectively” on Russian defensive positions and operations. Cluster bombs scatter multiple bomblets and are banned by more than 100 states due to…

Getty Images By Max Matza BBC News Las Vegas police searching for evidence in the unsolved 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur were targeting an alleged gang member’s home, a warrant says. The home searched on Monday belongs to Duane Keith Davis, 60, said to have been inside a car carrying the gunman. Mr Davis has…

Reuters By Holly Honderich BBC News Before the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, the Canadian women’s football coach Bev Priestman gave her team a three-word motto: change the colour. For two Olympics in a row, in London and Rio, the team had medalled, claiming a respectable bronze both times. But the third-place results helped cement Canada’s…

Footage captures the tornado that tore through the Pfizer pharmaceutical manufacturing facility and flattened buildings in North Carolina. The company says the facility is one of largest sterile injectable sites in the world. Experts say the damage could lead to shortages.

Getty Images By Chloe Kim BBC News A strike affecting Broadway shows looks likely to be averted, just hours after a union representing 1,500 backstage workers announced a vote to walk out. The tentative deal means the strike, which could have begun as early as Friday halting 28 shows in New York and 17 touring…

Is Rishi Sunak about to become the first prime minister to lose three by-elections in a day since 1968? I’ve been chatting to the parties over the course of today. Senior Tories say they expect to lose all three. There’s some expectation management going on here, but the general mood is pretty bleak. Labour are…

Reuters By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News The pilot of a helicopter that crashed in Canada’s Alberta province during wildfire fighting operations has died, authorities said. Investigators are headed to the site of the deadly crash which took place southeast of the town of Manning in the province’s Peace River area. The crash comes days…

Getty Images By Bethany Bell in Vienna and Laura Gozzi BBC News A US businessman has donated fragments of what is believed to be Ludwig van Beethoven’s skull to a Vienna university for study. Paul Kaufmann said he felt “very privileged to be able to return the Beethoven skull fragments, which I inherited, to where…

Getty Images A Ponzi scheme operator whose prison sentence was commuted by former US President Donald Trump has been charged with a similar fraud. Eli Weinstein, 48, was among 143 people whose convictions were either fully pardoned or commuted in Mr Trump’s final hours in office. But less than a year after release, Mr Weinstein…