At least 24 people have died in a scorching heat wave sweeping half a dozen Indian states.

India’s human rights watchdog agency has ordered a state government to investigate whether a four-year-old boy who ran a 40-mile marathon had been exploited by his sports coach and other officials.

India has test-fired a Russian rocket which is part of an advanced weapons system it may buy, but is insisting the test was routine.

With reservoirs and rivers drying up under a scorching sun, hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing their homes to escape drought in three Indian states, including earthquake-devastated Gujarat.