Malta was rocked by a spate of high-level resignations, two years after the murder of a journalist who had been investigating corruption on the island.
Les Moonves resigned with immediate effect as the chief executive and chairman of CBS, following a spate of sexual-harassment allegations dating from the 1980s to the 2000s.
Nearly 300 people were wounded. Most of the casualties occurred in the capital Baghdad in a spate of apparently coordinated car bombings. Here is Alhassan Sillah from Baghdad.
He had recently started a neighbourhood-watch scheme and he frequently called the police to report everything from potholes to people he thought might be involved in a spate of burglaries.
Lonnie David Franklin Jr. has been accused of being the mass killer who was known as the 'grim sleeper' because there was an apparent gap of more than 13 years between two spates of murders.