Tens of people are still feared to be trapped with a rescue operation under way, emergency services say.
David McBride pleaded guilty to stealing military secrets, but said he felt a moral duty to speak up.
A member of the UN's safety team was killed in Rafah on their way to a hospital, the agency says.
South African Delvin Safers had already made what he thought was his last phone call to his family.
America's top diplomat will deliver a message of "strong reassurance... in a difficult moment", a US official says.
Chinese firm MineOne Partners has been ordered to sell land it owns near a US nuclear missile site.
Lorenzo Prendini tells the BBC he had official permits allowing him to take the samples out of Turkey.
Zhang Zhan had been in jail for four years for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble".
Unverified video shows protesters throwing food packages onto the ground before stomping on them.
Events off screen could be as dramatic as those in the selection of star-studded film premieres.
Richard Scolyer has undergone a new treatment for glioblastoma, based on his own melanoma research.
Human rights groups urge the UK to demand an independent investigation into the reported killing.
Fierce fighting is reported as Israel says it is targeting areas of where Hamas has regrouped.
India is hoping that biogas, produced from farm waste, will curb its reliance on imported gas.