Harvey Downpours Kill At Least Two People in Texas

The biggest storm in the history of Texas has led to widespread flooding with the city of Houston said to be facing a catastrophe.

Some of those affected by the massive 2005 suicide bomb blast that killed ex-Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri and 21 others in Beirut will open their case today, at the UN-backed tribunal set up to prosecute Hariri's killers.

The farming town of Estcourt in KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa is expected to come to a standstill today for the court appearance of five men linked to a strange and grisly case of cannibalism.