South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar says there must be proper talks before the rebels can agree to a truce, as UN reinforcements arrive in Juba.

US police release thousands of documents tied to their probe into a Connecticut school shooting, during which 26 people died last December.

A nine-year-old boy from California, Tyler Armstrong, becomes the youngest person to reach the summit of Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Americas.

Residents of a remote town in Brazil's Amazonas state attack an indigenous reserve, hours after members of a nearby tribe sought refuge at an army base.

China's top legislature has formally adopted a resolution easing the country's one-child policy, the state news agency reports.

Mali says it will investigate ousted leader Amadou Toumani Toure for high treason, accusing him of failing to stop an Islamist insurgency.

At least 23 people, including two children, have died after a fire broke out on a train in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, media reports say.

The Libyan authorities have released four American military personnel detained on Friday, US officials say.