The US Supreme Court will hear the case of three death row inmates who say the use of the sedative midazolam in executions is cruel and unusual punishment.

Five Lebanese government soldiers are killed in clashes with militants near the Syrian border, the Lebanese army says.

Haiti installs a Provisional Electoral Council to organise long-delayed elections - after weeks of protests and political uncertainty.

Brazil's Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira says the country's most populous states are experiencing their worst water crisis since 1930.

World leaders are due to arrive in Saudi Arabia to pay their respects in person after the death on Friday of King Abdullah.

A young Colorado woman is sentenced to four years in jail for trying to provide material support to the militant group Islamic State.

Salvage teams begin an operation to raise the fuselage of AirAsia flight QZ8501, which crashed into the Java Sea, killing all 162 on board.

Rockets fired by pro-Russian rebels kill at least 15 people and injure dozens in Ukraine's government-held port city of Mariupol, police say.