This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Emily McGarvey BBC News Two Greek air force pilots have died after a plane crashed while fighting wildfires on the Greek island of Evia, officials say. The water-bombing plane crashed while battling a forest fire near…

Getty Images By Chloe Kim BBC News, New York Two-time Grammy winner Tori Kelly is being treated in hospital for blood clots in her lungs and legs after collapsing at a dinner, US media report. Reports suggest the 30-year-old’s condition is “really serious”. She was at a dinner in Los Angeles when she experienced elevated…

EPA By Paul Adams BBC News, Jerusalem After the sound and fury of Monday’s mass protests around Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, Jerusalem is calm. In Sacher Park, a protest camp since the weekend, the tents have gone, leaving flocks of hooded crows to peck over piles of rubbish. At the busy junction just above the…

Getty Images By Tiffanie Turnbull and Katie Silver BBC News, Sydney Just 50 years ago, Australia was so indifferent to its first national women’s football team that only recently did it actually begin figuring out who was in it. And yet, these days, Matildas captain Sam Kerr is the face of football in the country…

Pool By Stephen McDonell China correspondent One of the most visible figures in China’s government, a rising star who was catapulted into the role of foreign minister by Xi Jinping himself, has been removed. The announcement that Qin Gang had lost his job was massive news here, but it was delivered, typically, without fanfare and…

EPA By Robert Greenall BBC News Russia is raising the maximum age at which men can be conscripted from 27 to 30, making more of them liable to serve in the armed forces. The change was passed by the lower house of parliament on Tuesday. It still needs to approved by the upper house and…

Authorities are racing to save a pod of pilot whales which have become stranded on a beach in Western Australia. The pod of at least 60 whales was first spotted about 100 metres off the coast at Cheynes Beach on Monday evening. Witnesses told local media that they found the sight of whales tightly clustering…

The US military declassified video footage showing the moment a Russian fighter jet flew dangerously close to US MQ-9 drone. In a press release, the Air Force said the Russian jet was “harassing the MQ-9 and deploying flares from a position directly overhead, with only a few meters of separation between aircraft.”

Sotheby’s By Shiona McCallum Technology reporter A pair of rare Apple trainers are being sold by auction house Sotheby’s for $50,000 (£38,969). The shoes were custom-made for employees only in the 1990s and were a one-time giveaway at a conference. A pair have never been sold to the public before. Featuring a predominately white leather…

Delaware County District Attorney’s Office By Sam Cabral BBC News A retired US church pastor who presided nearly half a century ago over the funeral of a kidnapped eight-year-old girl has been charged with her murder. Gretchen Harrington went missing in the Philadelphia suburb of Marple Township on the morning of 15 August 1975 while…