Footage shows the aftermath of an explosion that struck a passenger bus near the Syrian capital, Damascus, leaving multiple people injured, according to local reports.

A funeral was held for an ‘Israeli’ military reservist killed during combat operations in southern Lebanon, with family, friends, and military personnel attending.

Gaza beekeeper Ibrahim al-Dabba and his sons tend beehives on a rooftop in Tel al-Hawa after he lost around 400 hives east of the city during the war.

"The things that unite us are so much bigger than the things that divide us," says Abdul El-Sayed, the leftist Democrat who narrowly won the party's nomination in Michigan for one of November's most important US Senate races.

"We're going to build a movement that reaches out to everybody," El-Sayed tells his supporters at a press conference.

At Prague Zoo, polar bears and gorillas nibble on ice cream and roll around in piles of snow as a second heatwave of the summer reaches its peak, with national temperatures hitting a near-record 41.5 degrees.

Polar bear twins Gregor and Aleut receive up to three tonnes of ice on such days, while they munch on ice cream filled with apples, carrots, mackerel and salmon. The zoo's gorillas, for their part, like their ice cream -- also sweetened with fruit -- to be suspended down to them on a rope.

Shia Muslims carry Iranian and religious flags through Tehran during Arbaeen, while boys sing religious and political songs and volunteers prepare food and drinks for mourners. 

The annual commemoration is held 40 days after the anniversary of Imam Hussein's killing at Karbala in 680.

Palestinians in Gaza City hold a mass funeral for more than 100 people whose remains were recovered from the rubble after nearly three years of war. 

French and British vessels rescued 157 migrants after their boat caught fire whilst attempting to cross the English Channel. “We have people who have (...) grazes, minor burns and bruises, but these are really only minor injuries,” said Colonel Darras, deputy director of SDIS 62 and head of rescue operations.

President Donald Trump says the US and Iran are actively engaged in negotiations despite Tehran's denials and warns that Iran faces its "last chance to sign" a good deal. "We are talking, right now," Trump tells reporters, adding, "I want to give them every last chance before decapitation."

Taiwan conducts early recall training for reservists on assigned weapons ahead of its annual Han Kuang exercises. The annual military drills -- which will start this Wednesday -- aim to prepare the island's troops and civilians for a potential Chinese attack.