US Senator John McCain defeated conservative challenger J.D. Hayworth in the Republican primary in his bid for a fifth term.

Actor Glenn Ford, who played strong, thoughtful protagonists in films such as The Blackboard Jungle, Gilda and The Big Heat, has died in the US. He was 90.

Vincent Sherman, who directed – and romanced – Bette Davis, Rita Hayworth and Joan Crawford during his heyday as a leading Hollywood filmmaker in the US in the 1940s and ’50s, has died. He would have been 100 on July 16.