At least one of four people arrested during an investigation of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s suspected fatal heroin overdose had the actor’s mobile phone number.

An American filmmaker who was imprisoned for nearly two months in Iraq by the US military before being cleared and freed is trying to secure the release of an Iraqi man he met in captivity.

A 14-year-old boy charged with murdering a classmate in a school toilet had planned to kill him, another schoolmate and any witnesses, according to excerpts from his diary.