Two high-profile rappers pledge to donate $22,500 (£14,000) to help an Ohio woman whose five children and boyfriend perished in a fire.

Washington DC's Capitol Police order a review into a BBC report that an armed police team was ordered not to respond to Monday's mass shooting.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says his country will never build nuclear weapons, hours after Tehran reportedly releases 11 political prisoners.

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad tells Fox News he is committed to destroying his country's chemical weapons but it will take about a year to do so.

Brazil's Supreme Court breaks a deadlock and narrowly rules in favour of reopening the country's biggest corruption trial, known as the Mensalao.

A French economy minister intervenes in Germany's election campaign by calling for wages to be raised in order to ensure fairer competition.

Former US heavyweight boxing champion Ken Norton, who beat Muhammad Ali, has died at the age of 70, his family says.

The billionaire creator of Beanie Babies toys, Ty Warner, could face a prison sentence after agreeing to plead guilty to a charge of tax evasion.