This is the main news as reported by the Associated Press on 7 July....

A judge on Thursday denied Bill Cosby's bid to force his sex-assault accuser to testify before trial, ruling prosecutors worked within the law by using police statements as a stand-in for her at his...

Two snipers opened fire on police officers during protests in Dallas on Thursday night, killing five officers and injuring seven others, the police chief said. A statement from Dallas Police...

A court in the Vatican has found a priest and a PR consultant guilty of leaking official documents, while two journalists and a church secretary have been acquitted. The papers were cited in...

Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom will battle it out to become the next leader of the UK Conservative Party after Michael Gove was eliminated from the contest. After the second MPs' ballot, Home...

A Minnesota officer fatally shot a man in a car with a woman and a child, an official said, and authorities are looking into whether the aftermath was livestreamed in a widely shared Facebook video,...

Italian navy officials say they have recovered 217 bodies from the hull of a migrant ship that sank off Libya last year in a tragedy that sparked the EU to beef up Mediterranean rescue...

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are marking their 70th wedding anniversary. The former U.S. president and first lady married on July 7, 1946, in their small hometown of Plains, Georgia. Jimmy Carter,...

This is the main news as reported by the Associated Press on 6 July...

Cooling towers, blast furnaces and coking coal. The grit and humor of steelworkers heading to early-morning shifts. That was Motherwell before the steelworks closed and the "Steelopolis" of Scotland...