Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary are among a range of high-profile names to receive subpoenas from a congressional committee to testify about deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Republican James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, issued the subpoenas on Tuesday to the Clintons, as well as eight other individuals.

The committee is looking for more information about Epstein's history, after President Donald Trump's administration decided against releasing more federal files on the late financier.

That decision sparked outrage among Trump's supporters and some liberals, as many believe the files include a "client list" of famous men affiliated with Epstein.

The subpoenas cast a wide net across Justice Department leadership during the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations, and the committee also subpoenaed the department itself for records related to Epstein.

Merrick Garland, who headed the department under former President Joe Biden, received notice from the committee, according to Comer.

Both attorneys general during Trump's first term in office, Jeff Sessions and William Barr, did as well.

Former FBI directors James Comey and Robert Mueller, will also be compelled to testify before the committee.

It is not immediately clear if the individuals named by Comer will ultimately appear before the committee and, if they do, whether they will testify publicly.

Federal prosecutors charged Epstein with sex trafficking of minors and other crimes in 2019, during the first Trump administration.

He died by suicide in jail later that year, which led to questions and rumours about his death while in custody.

This summer, current US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the justice department had reviewed its Epstein records and found no evidence of the long-rumoured "client list". She also said evidence supported he died by suicide while in custody and that the federal government would not release any more of its files.

The announcements sparked outrage among some in Trump's base who believed his administration was not forthcoming about Epstein-related materials.

In a rare break with President Trump, multiple members of the House Republican caucus have called for greater inquiry into the case.

Comer's subpoenas indicate that the House Oversight Committee -- which wields significant investigatory powers -- will continue to press for information from the Trump administration.

Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered the largest annual decline in coral cover since records began nearly 40 years ago, according to a new report.

Northern and southern branches of the sprawling Australian reef both suffered their most widespread coral bleaching, the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) found.

Reefs have been battered in recent months by tropical cyclones and outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish that feast on coral, but heat stress driven by climate change is the predominant reason, AIMS said.

AIMS warns the habitat may reach a tipping point where coral cannot recover fast enough between catastrophic events and faces a "volatile" future.

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AIMS surveyed the health of 124 coral reefs between August 2024 and May 2025. It has been performing surveys since 1986.

Often dubbed the world's largest living structure, the Great Barrier Reef is a 2,300km (1,429-mile) expanse of tropical corals that houses a stunning array of biodiversity. Repeated bleaching events are turning vast swaths of once-vibrant coral white.

Coral is vital to the planet. Nicknamed the sea's architect, it builds vast structures that house an estimated 25% of all marine species.

Bleaching happens when coral gets stressed and turns white because the water it lives in is too hot.

Stressed coral will probably die if it experiences temperatures 1C (1.8F) above its thermal limit for two months. If waters are 2C higher, it can survive around one month.

Unusually warm tropical waters triggered widespread coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef in 2024 and in the first few months of 2025, the sixth such event since 2016.

As well as climate change, natural weather patterns like El Nino can also play a role in mass bleaching events.

The reef has "experienced unprecedented levels of heat stress, which caused the most spatially extensive and severe bleaching recorded to date," the report found.

Any recovery could take years and was dependent on future coral reproduction and minimal environmental disturbance, according to the report.

In the latest AIMS survey results, the most affected coral species were the Acropora, which are susceptible to heat stress and a favoured food of the crown-of-thorns starfish.

"These corals are the fastest to grow and are the first to go," AIMS research lead Dr Mike Emslie told ABC News.

"The Great Barrier Reef is such a beautiful, iconic place, it's really, really worth fighting for. And if we can give it a chance, it's shown an inherent ability to recover," he said.

There has been some success with the Australian government's crown-of-thorns starfish culling programme, which has killed over 50,000 starfish by injecting them with vinegar or ox bile.

"Due to crown-of-thorns starfish control activities, there were no potential, established, or severe outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish recorded on Central GBR reefs in 2025," the AIMS report noted.

The creatures are native to the Great Barrier Reef and are capable of eating vast amounts of coral. But since the 1960s their numbers have increased significantly, with nutrients from land-based agriculture run-off regarded as the most likely cause.

Richard Leck from the global environmental charity WWF said the report shows that the reef is an "ecosystem under incredible stress" and scientists are concerned about what happens when "the reef does not keep bouncing back the way it has," he told news agency AFP.

Leck said some coral reefs around the world are already beyond recovery, warning the Great Barrier Reef could suffer the same fate without ambitious and rapid climate action.

The Great Barrier Reef has been heritage-listed for over 40 years, but Unesco warns the Australian icon is "in danger" from warming seas and pollution.

Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars and Kendrick Lamar lead the nominations for this year's MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs).

Sabrina Carpenter and Ariana Grande are also among the most nominated artists for the 2025 US award show.

Beyoncé and Taylor Swift, who are tied for most VMA wins with 30 each, have received one nomination this year - both in the artist of the year category.

Neither artist released an album in the past year, but both artists have undertaken blockbuster tours in that period.

Swift already holds the crown for most Moonman trophies for a single artist, as Beyoncé's tally includes collaborations with others.

Swift was also the biggest winner on the night last year, winning seven prizes, including the top two awards: artist and video of the year.

Overall this year, Lady Gaga has received 12 nominations, Bruno Mars has 11, rapper Kendrick Lamar is next with 10, and Espresso singer Sabrina Carpenter has eight.

Lady Gaga's nominations include artist of the year and best album for Mayhem. The 39-year-old is currently on tour in the US.

Die With A Smile, a collaboration between Lady Gaga and Mars, also 39, is nominated for song of the year, with the musicians also up for best collaboration, best pop, and video of the year.

This year's VMA's includes two new categories: best country and best pop artist.

The show will take place on 7 September at New York's UBS Arena.

No plans have yet been released for MTV Europe Music Awards this year, with the show reportedly on pause.

Rwanda has said it will accept up to 250 migrants from the US in a deal agreed with President Donald Trump's administration.

Under the scheme the deportees would be given "workforce training, health care, and accommodation to jump start their lives in Rwanda", government spokesperson Yolande Makole confirmed to the BBC.

A condition of the agreement was that Rwanda would have "the ability to approve each individual proposed for resettlement", she added.

The White House has not commented on the deal directly but told the BBC it was constantly talking to countries "willing to assist us in removing the illegal aliens that [ex-President] Joe Biden" had allowed to "infiltrate" the US.

Since Trump came back into power in January, he has focused on a sweeping mass deportation scheme to remove undocumented migrants from the US quickly, a key election promise.

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Murmurs of a deal between Rwanda and the US came out in May, after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington was "actively searching" for a country to take some of what he described as the "some of the most despicable human beings".

The Trump administration has been courting several African countries to accept deported migrants whose home countries have refused to take them back. Eswatini and South Sudan have recently accepted some, including deportees who are convicted criminals.

Ms Makolo told the BBC that Rwanda had gone ahead with the deal with the US because "nearly every Rwandan family has experienced the hardships of displacement".

She added that Rwandan society values were founded "on reintegration and rehabilitation".

This echoed comments from May when Rwanda's foreign affairs minister said the country, which went through a genocide in the mid-1990s, was led in the "spirit" of giving "another chance to migrants who have problems across the world".

Under a deal agreed with the UN refugee agency and African Union six years ago, nearly 3,000 refugees and asylum seekers trapped in Libya were evacuated to Rwanda between September 2019 and April 2025. The UN says many of these people have subsequently been resettled elsewhere.

Rwanda had a deal with the UK, agreed with the Conservative government in 2022, to accept asylum seekers.

But the UK scrapped the scheme, which faced numerous legal challenges, after Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government took office in July last year.

The UK had paid Rwanda £240m ($310m), even building places to house the asylum seekers. It is not clear what has happened to these facilities.

The Reuters news agency reported that an unnamed Rwandan official had said the US would give Kigali an unspecified grant as part of the deal, but this has not been confirmed.

Ms Makolo told the BBC that more details would be provided once they had been worked out.

Human rights experts have raised concerns that removals to a nation that is not a migrant's place of origin - known as a third country - could violate international law.

Rwanda has previously been criticised for its human rights record, including the risk that those sent to the East African nation could be deported again to countries where they may face danger.

But Rwanda's government maintains it can provide a safe place for migrants.

The country has also come under fire for backing the M23 rebel group embroiled in the conflict in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo - an accusation it has denied.

In June, a ceasefire deal was signed in Washington by Rwanda and DR Congo as part of an ongoing peace process aimed at ending three decades of instability in the region.

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Dozens of Texas Democrats have secretly left the state in a dramatic effort to stop Republicans from holding a vote that could determine the balance of power in the US Congress.

Republican Governor Greg Abbot has issued orders that they be arrested on sight - and fined $500 a day. He has also threatened to expel them from office.

The Democrats left because at least two-thirds of the 150-member legislative body must be present to proceed with a vote on re-drawing Texas's electoral map. The plan would create five more Republican-leaning seats in the US House of Representatives.

This high stakes battle may seem both bizarre and confusing – but it is one that could spread to other states in advance of next year's national midterm elections. At its heart, it's a bare-knuckle fight over political power, who can wield it most effectively and who can keep it.

Why does Trump want redistricting?

The US House of Representatives is made up of 435 legislators who are elected every two years. They represent districts with boundaries determined in processes set by their state governments.

Who draws the lines and how can go a long way in shaping the ideological tilt of the district and the likelihood that it elects a Democrat or a Republican.

At the moment, the House rests on a knife edge with 219 Republicans and 212 Democrats. There are four vacancies likely to be filled by three Democrats and one Republican in special elections later this year.

It wouldn't take much of a shift in the political winds for Democrats to take back control of the House of Representatives in next year's midterm elections. And the party that controls the lower chamber of Congress has powers that extend far beyond simply setting the legislative agenda for the next two years, as important as that may be.

House leaders can launch sweeping investigations of presidential actions, as Democrats did in the second half of Donald Trump's first term and Republicans did in Joe Biden's final two years. They can also dig in on policy issues and trigger government shutdowns. They can even vote to impeach a president, as Democrats did in December 2019 and Republicans contemplated during Biden's presidency.

Trump appears focused on taking steps to improve his odds of avoiding a similar fate in his second term. He is reportedly fixated on the midterm races and encouraging Texas lawmakers to draw new congressional maps that could increase the likelihood of Republicans winning more House seats from there.

How does redistricting usually work?

District lines are typically redrawn every 10 years, after a national census, to reflect shifts in the population within and between states. The most recent regularly scheduled redistricting took place in 2021.

In some states, the process is set by independent commissions but in others the state legislatures are responsible for line-drawing – and the results can frequently be crafted by the party in power to give their side a distinct advantage.

In North Carolina, for instance, Republican-drawn lines gave their party 10 of the state's 14 House seats in last year's national elections even though Trump only won the state by a slim margin.

Democrats in Illinois hold 14 of the state's 17 House seats, while former Vice-President Kamala Harris won the state with 54%. If Trump has his way, and the maps lead to a five-seat gain next year, Republicans would control 30 of the state's 38 seats. Last year, he won Texas with 56%.

So what could happen next?

The Republican push in Texas has leaders in Democratic-controlled states calling for a response, which could set off a redistricting "arms race" that spreads across the country.

California Governor Gavin Newsom, for example, has asked legislators in his state, where Democrats control 43 of the 52 seats, to find ways to increase their advantage. Governors Kathy Hochul in New York and JB Pritzker in Illinois have issued similar calls.

"Everything's on the table," Pritzker wrote in a post on social media. "We've got to do everything we can to stand up and fight back - we're not sitting around and complaining from the sidelines when we have the ability to stop them."

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Grassroots Democrats, many of whom have been frustrated by the inability of their party's national political leaders to block the Trump administration's policy agenda, may welcome such confrontational language. States like California and New York have laws that mandate congressional districts be drawn by a bipartisan commission to create constituencies that are compact and fair.

Such efforts were the result of a push to remove political considerations from the redistricting process, but now some Democrats view those moves as unilateral disarmament that gave Republicans an advantage in the fight for a House majority.

"I'm tired of fighting this fight with my hand tied behind my back," Hochul told reporters at the New York Capitol in Albany on Monday. "With all due respect to the good government groups, politics is a political process."

She said the "playing field" has changed dramatically during Trump's second term and Democrats need to adjust.

Democrats may not have the final say, however. Republicans are already looking beyond Texas for more places to pick up seats. Vice-President JD Vance is reported to be considering a trip to Indiana later this week to push for new district lines in that state. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently said his Republican-dominated state may undertake a similar process.

Despite its explicit political designs, all of this is fair game under the US Constitution – at least the way a narrow majority of the US Supreme Court interpreted it in a landmark 2019 case.

Partisan "gerrymandering", as the process is sometimes called, has a long tradition in US politics – one that frequently creates oddly shaped constituencies that stretch for miles to include, or exclude, voters based on their political affiliations, all with the goal of giving one party an electoral majority.

The Republican move in Texas isn't even without precedent. In 2003, Republican leaders redrew their congressional maps to boost their electoral advantage.

The state's Democrats even responded in a similar way – leaving the state to delay the legislative proceedings. The redistricting ultimately passed after enough Democrats returned.

There is a risk in all of this, even for the party doing the line-drawing. While the goal is to maximise the number of seats where victory is probable, in an election where one side outperforms expectations even seemingly safe seats can flip sides.

Texas, and other redistricting states, could create an electoral map that does not survive a political deluge, leading to otherwise avoidable losses at the ballot box.

In a close election, however, every seat counts. And if next year's midterm elections continue the recent trend of narrowly decided political battles, what happens in state legislatures over the next few months could have dramatic political consequences in Washington DC – and, consequently, across America.

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Former Romanian President Ion Iliescu, who presided over the country's chaotic transition from communism to democracy, has died aged 95.

Iliescu had been diagnosed with lung cancer and hospitalised in early June in Romania's capital, Bucharest.

"It is with deep regret that the government announces the passing of the former President of Romania, Mr Ion Iliescu," a government statement said, adding that details of a state funeral would be shared soon.

Iliescu was Romania's first freely elected president, and served twice, from 1986-1996 and 2000-2004. He was accused of crimes against humanity over the violent revolt that toppled Romania's communist regime in 1989, but always denied wrongdoing.

Charges were brought in 2019, but he was never convicted.

In a separate case, he was also indicted over his role in calling in miners to crush student protests after his election in 1990.

The bloody crackdown, which became known as the Mineriad, drew widespread international condemnation.

Prior to his latest hospitalisation, Iliescu had been receiving regular medical check-ups at Elias Hospital in Bucharest.

In 2019, he underwent surgery for pericardial effusion - a condition affecting the heart.

Born on 3 March, 1930, in the southern city of Oltenița, Iliescu had largely withdrawn from public life in recent years, though he occasionally shared written messages on his personal blog.

His final post, on 19 May, congratulated Bucharest's liberal, pro-EU mayor, Nicusor Dan, on being elected president.

Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary are among a range of high-profile names to receive subpoenas from a congressional committee to testify about deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Republican James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, issued the subpoenas on Tuesday to the Clintons, as well as eight other individuals.

The committee is looking for more information about Epstein's history, after President Donald Trump's administration decided against releasing more federal files on the late financier.

That decision sparked outrage among Trump's supporters and some liberals, as many believe the files include a "client list" of famous men affiliated with Epstein.

The subpoenas cast a wide net across Justice Department leadership during the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations, and the committee also subpoenaed the department itself for records related to Epstein.

Merrick Garland, who headed the department under former President Joe Biden, received notice from the committee, according to Comer.

Both attorneys general during Trump's first term in office, Jeff Sessions and William Barr, did as well.

Former FBI directors James Comey and Robert Mueller, will also be compelled to testify before the committee.

It is not immediately clear if the individuals named by Comer will ultimately appear before the committee and, if they do, whether they will testify publicly.

Federal prosecutors charged Epstein with sex trafficking of minors and other crimes in 2019, during the first Trump administration.

He died by suicide in jail later that year, which led to questions and rumours about his death while in custody.

This summer, current US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the justice department had reviewed its Epstein records and found no evidence of the long-rumoured "client list". She also said evidence supported he died by suicide while in custody and that the federal government would not release any more of its files.

The announcements sparked outrage among some in Trump's base who believed his administration was not forthcoming about Epstein-related materials.

In a rare break with President Trump, multiple members of the House Republican caucus have called for greater inquiry into the case.

Comer's subpoenas indicate that the House Oversight Committee -- which wields significant investigatory powers -- will continue to press for information from the Trump administration.

The US Coast Guard has determined the implosion of OceanGate's Titan submersible that killed all five people on board was "preventable", citing the company's "critically flawed" safety practices.

A damning 335-page report from Coast Guard investigators states that OceanGate, the company that owned and operated the Titan, failed to follow maintenance and inspection protocols for the deep-sea vessel.

"There is a need for stronger oversight and clear options for operators who are exploring new concepts outside of the existing regulatory framework," Jason Neubauer, the chair of the Coast Guard Marine Board, said in a statement.

The Titan submersible disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean while descending to the wreckage of the Titanic on 18 June 2023.

OceanGate has extended its condolences to the families of the victims and stated that it "directed its resources fully toward cooperating with the Coast Guard's inquiry".

Here are five key takeaways from the two-year investigation.

OceanGate had 'critically flawed' safety practices and a 'toxic' workplace culture

The report condemns OceanGate's safety practices as fundamentally inadequate. It says the primary causal factor for the implosion was the firm's failure to follow "established engineering protocols" for safety and testing.

There were "glaring disparities between their written safety protocols and their actual practices", the report states.

"This marine casualty and the loss of five lives was preventable," said Jason Neubauer, the chairman of the Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation that was charged with investigating the Titan disaster.

The company continued to use the Titan sub despite a series of previous incidents that compromised the craft without properly assessing its suitability, the investigation found.

Loss of sub's structural integrity caused implosion

The sub imploded 90 minutes into the dive after its carbon-fibre hull suffered a catastrophic loss of structural integrity, the investigation found.

The report says the crew died instantly, subjected to nearly 5,000 pounds per square inch of water pressure.

Carbon fibre has not been used for a deep diving sub before.

It is known to be unreliable under pressure, and its layers are known to come apart in a process called delamination.

The submersible did complete 13 dives to the Titanic in the two years preceding the tragedy. But the coastguard criticised the company's continued use of the submersible without checking its hull, after a number of safety issues were picked up its monitoring.

Rob McCallum, from EYOS expeditions, a specialist in deep water operations, who advised Oceangate between 2009 and 2016, told the BBC that carbon fibre is an unpredictable material.

"When you listen to the sounds of that hull under stress, and the cracking and the popping, that's the sign of damage in the hull, that means the hull is getting weaker," Mr McCallum said.

"So you can't expect to take a vehicle to the same depth every time knowing that it's weaker than the dive before, and expect it not to fail at some stage, It is a mathematical certainty that it will fail," he said. "The tragedy is, you don't know when it's going to fail."

OceanGate used 'intimidation tactics' to avoid scrutiny

The report accuses OceanGate of intentionally avoiding regulatory scrutiny through intimidation and strategic manipulation.

In the years leading up to the incident, the company "leveraged intimidation tactics, allowances for scientific operations, and the company's favorable reputation to evade regulatory scrutiny", the report said.

"By strategically creating and exploiting regulatory confusion and oversight challenges, OceanGate was ultimately able to operate Titan completely outside of the established deep-sea protocols," it added.

OceanGate founder and Titan pilot Stockton Rush's 'negligence' contributed to deaths

The report also blames Stockton Rush, OceanGate's founder and the pilot of the Titan sub during its fatal voyage, for contributing to the disaster.

Rush "exhibited negligence that contributed to the deaths of four individuals" (apart from his own), investigators said.

Had he survived, investigators said they would have recommended referring him to the US Department of Justice for potential "criminal offences".

Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation Chair Jason Neubauer told the BBC that the structure of the organisation was "deeply flawed".

"One of the biggest standouts that I think that any company could take away is, if your CEO, was also filling the role of safety officer, and lead engineer at the end, it's just too many," he said. "It's a consolidation of power that leads to no checks and balances."

Recommendations to prevent future incidents

To prevent similar disasters in future, the Marine Board issued 14 safety recommendations to the US Coast Guard and the wider submersible industry.

Key among them:

• US Coast Guard (USCG) pursue "proper regulatory oversight" of submersibles
• Revoking ORV (Oceanographic Research Vessel) designations for submersibles, requiring them to meet certification standards under new passenger vessel requirements
• Dedicated USCG resources "providing field support for vessels of novel design"

In a statement, Oceangate offered condolences to the families of those who died in the deadly disaster, and to all "those impacted by the tragedy".

"After the tragedy occurred, the company permanently wound down operations and directed its resources fully towards cooperating with the Coast Guard's inquiry through its completion," it said.

Warwickshire Police has responded to a claim it held back information over the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton, saying officers "did not and will not cover up such criminality".

County council leader George Finch had claimed two men charged in connection with the reported crime were asylum seekers and accused the force and Home Office of covering it up.

In a letter addressed to Finch, Chief Constable Alex Franklin-Smith said the force's priority was to support the victim and identify those responsible.

Finch, who represents Reform UK, said residents had "not been told the full story" and the only risk to public order came from "the cover-up itself".

"The immigration status of Ahmad Mulakhil and Mohammad Kabir is now public knowledge, having been placed into the public domain by yourself," Mr Franklin-Smith wrote, in a letter published on the force's website.

The Chief Constable said he had asked the Home Office to confirm the men's immigration status.

The reported rape of a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton on Tuesday 22 July was a truly horrific crime," Mr Franklin-Smith added.

"My responsibility is what Warwickshire Police say and do and we will continue to work with our partners across the county on behalf of the Warwickshire public.

"I am confident that Warwickshire Police has treated this investigation seriously from the outset, working tirelessly to identify, locate, arrest and charge those suspected of being responsible for this awful crime as quickly as possible."

He confirmed he had first spoken to Finch, who at 19 is the youngest council leader in the UK, about the matter on 31 July as it was "good practice" to work closely with partner agencies.

"You informed me you had already received a confidential briefing from your Chief Executive and that you knew the person charged was an asylum seeker," he wrote.

"I confirmed this was accurate and we wouldn't be releasing immigration status at point of charge as we follow national guidance."

Finch had published a letter on his social media accounts on Sunday, claiming the chief executive of the council, Monica Fogarty, had told him Mohammad Kabir was an asylum seeker living in a house of multiple occupancy.

Ahmad Mulakhil faces two rape charges, while Mohammad Kabir is accused of kidnap, strangulation and aiding and abetting the rape of a girl aged under 13.

The men, both from the Warwickshire town, will next appear at Warwick Crown Court on 26 August.

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Guidelines on disclosing personal information about suspects of crime are being reviewed but Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said it was up to individual police forces and the Crown Prosecution Service to decide what is released.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage previously called the police's decision not to publish the details a "cover-up".

Speaking alongside Finch at a press conference in Westminster on Monday, Farage linked a perceived lack of information from police to what happened after the Southport attacks July.

"It is not... in any way at all a contempt of court for the British public to know the identity of those who allegedly have committed serious crimes," he said.

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Family members of an Oasis fan who died when he fell from a height at the band's concert at Wembley Stadium have paid tribute to him as "a loving family man".

Lee Claydon, from Bournemouth, "was taken from us far too soon and we will miss him so very much", his brother Aaron wrote.

"Our family has been turned upside down and are struggling to deal with this devastation and unexpected loss."

On Sunday, police said a man in his 40s "was found with injuries consistent with a fall" and was pronounced dead at the scene at the stadium in London.

Aaron Claydon wrote on Facebook: "Still in shock and cannot believe I am writing this, but sadly over the weekend I lost my best mate the man I looked up to and the man I was lucky enough to call my brother Lee Claydon."

A GoFundMe page he has set up for his brother's partner and sons has raised more than £4,500.

On Facebook, Shannon Gabrielle wrote: "My cousin Lee tragically passed away this weekend after no doubt having the time of his life at the Oasis concert this weekend.

"Most will have seen snippets in the news I'm sure & as you can imagine it has devastated the whole family and for his closest knit family unit it's the toughest time they are going through ever right now."

She added: "You just don't fathom you will go out for a night of amazing fun & not come home at the end of it."

Mr Claydon reportedly fell from an upper tier.

On Sunday, Oasis said in a statement they were "shocked and saddened" to hear of the death of a fan.

They added: "Oasis would like to extend our sincere condolences to the family and friends of the person involved."

The band began the Oasis Live '25 reunion tour in July. Saturday's concert was one of seven sold-out reunion concerts at Wembley, which has a 90,000-person capacity across three tiers.

A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said: "A man - aged in his 40s – was found with injuries consistent with a fall. He was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.

"The stadium was busy, and we believe it is likely a number of people witnessed the incident, or may knowingly or unknowingly have caught it on mobile phone video footage."

Wembley Stadium said in a statement that medics, police and the London Ambulance service had attended to the injured man.

"Despite their efforts, the fan very sadly died. Our thoughts go out to his family, who have been informed and are being supported by specially trained police officers," the venue said.

The band will next appear at Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium for three gigs over the next week and then take their tour to Ireland, Canada, the US and Mexico before returning to Wembley on 27 and 28 September.