Fifty-five people have been killed in a raid by Islamist militant group Boko Haram in Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state, the military says.

A teenager suspected of raping a woman at gunpoint after robbing passengers on a public bus in Rio de Janeiro has turned himself in, police say.

The man accused of killing 12 in the July massacre at a Batman film in Colorado intends to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, his lawyers say.

Voters in South Carolina are deciding whether a former governor who quit two years ago over an extramarital affair will take a seat in the US Congress.

Israel's PM issues an unofficial order to stop approval of new plans or tenders for Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank, a pressure group says.

At least three people have died and several are missing after a ship crashed into a control tower in the Italian port of Genoa, media reports say.

Work has begun to take away a controversial statue depicting a naked boy with a frog in a part of ancient Venice, Italian media report.

China's trade growth accelerates in April, beating analysts' expectations, a positive sign for the country's fragile economic recovery.