2002 – The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an American League record.

1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.

1972 – The Price Is Right premieres on CBS. As of 2018, it is the longest running game show on American television.

2014 – Joan Rivers, American comedian, television host, and author (b. 1933)

2006 – Steve Irwin, Australian zoologist and television host (b. 1962)

Head coach Shelley Kerr says Scotland's women face "even more pressure" in Tuesday's visit to Albania as the team chase a World Cup debut.

Suicide rate among UK men at lowest since 1981

Japan has been hit by its strongest typhoon in 25 years, with officials warning more than a million people to evacuate their homes.

Jose Mourinho 'gets suspended jail sentence' for tax fraud

Amazon has briefly become the second US-listed firm to have a market value of more than $1 trillion (£779bn).

Apple reached the same milestone in early August.

Ed Sheeran's promoter is being sued by ticket reseller Viagogo for allegedly defrauding music fans.

A jubilant Scotland celebrated wildly in Shkoder as they clinched their first-ever spot at a Women's World Cup finals with a dramatic victory over Albania.

Knowing they had to better the result of Group 2 leaders Switzerland, who were away to Poland, to qualify automatically, Scots nerves were shredded as Shelley Kerr's side clung to a 2-1 lead while the Swiss pushed for a winning goal.

Upon the news that the match had ended goalless in Poland, Kerr's Scotland had just a matter of seconds to hold on before the referee's whistle signalled an outpouring of emotion on the pitch.

A much-changed England side concluded an unbeaten Women's World Cup qualifying campaign with a thrashing of Kazakhstan in Pavlodar.

Serena Williams passed her toughest test so far at the US Open to beat Karolina Pliskova and reach the semi-finals for a ninth consecutive time.

Europe's top club coaches have asked Uefa to review the use of the away-goals rule in continental competitions.

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More than a fifth of meat sample tests in 2017 found DNA from animals not on the labelling, the BBC has learned.

A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz has been found 13 years after being stolen, according to US authorities.

A deal has been struck to let the NHS offer children an expensive new cancer therapy that has been called the most exciting treatment advance for decades.

The NHS has a limited pot of money, meaning tough choices have to be made about which treatments are affordable. The cash for CAR-T will come from the Cancer Drugs Fund, set up to fast-track access to the most promising new cancer treatments.

Dame Barbara Windsor recovering from heart surgery after complications caused by Alzheimer's medication

Scottish Gin Society rapped over Facebook adverts

Michael Dapaah, the comedian behind Big Shaq, has been honoured at the GRM Daily Rated Awards - winning personality of the year.