US to send Ukraine weapons package to help in Russia counteroffensive

The US is planning to send Ukraine a cluster munitions package to help in its counteroffensive against Russia, US media reports. Ukraine has been asking for the weapons for months amid an ammunition shortage.

At least 50 people, including eight children, have been killed by floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains in Pakistan since last month, according to officials.

When Bruce Springsteen last played London's Hyde Park in 2012, he went past his curfew and had the power cut as he stood on stage with Paul McCartney playing a brace of Beatles covers. As you can imagine it didn't go down well but on Thursday night, he returned to Hyde Park - playing a different festival, organised by a different promoter - and finally laid the ghost to rest.

The Uruguayan capital, Montevideo, is running extremely low on drinking water and the government says there's only one week's supply left. A water emergency has already been declared in Montevideo and the greater metropolitan area, as the country grapples with its worst drought in more than seventy years.

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(Photo: The casing of a Russian cluster bomb rocket seen in the city of Mykolaiv, Ukraine. Credit: Getty Images/Scott Peterson)