Millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein had been taken off suicide watch before he apparently killed himself in jail in New York while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who helped make his name smashing a valuable vase in the name of art, said that he was miffed about another artist destroying one of his vases in Florida.

The United States has stopped press access to Guantanamo Bay as the prison comes under renewed criticism for the apparent suicides of three detainees last weekend.

Fidel Castro scoffed at new reports that he suffers from Parkinson’s disease, saying those who believed the countless rumours about his health would be disappointed when he lived on.