In world news headlines -

> Calls are growing for the UK to release inmates who are on remand, including WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, amid a coronavirus outbreak in the country's prisons.

> the World Health Organisation says more younger people are now falling severely ill with Covid-19, as the number of deaths passes 50,000 globally.

> Authorities have been searching for the daughter and a grandson of former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend after a canoe they were paddling in the Chesapeake Bay didn't return to shore.