Hundreds of protesters rallied in New Yorks Times Square on 26 July to voice their opposition to President Donald Trumps announcement that he would ban transgender people from serving in the US military. Protesters gathered outside a military recruitment centre in Times Square for the rally.
On Sunday night (July 23), Michael Phelps was bested in the Discovery Channels Shark Week special, Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White. Viewers took to social media to complain after the shark he was racing turned out to be CGI.
People on social media have criticizsed the premise of the new show, which imagines if the South had won the American Civil War, and slavery was still legal in the modern age.
British actor Paul Nicholls has been rescued from a remote jungle waterfall on Thailands holiday island of Koh Samui after falling into a rock pool during a solo hike. The 38-year-old man, best known for acting in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, spent three days lying below the Khun Si waterfall with a broken leg before he was found on 13 July.