Former US Army Sgt Kyle White has been awarded the Medal of Honor, only the seventh US veteran of Iraq or Afghanistan to be so decorated.

An explosion at a mine in western Turkey leaves 151 workers dead and scores injured, as a huge rescue operation gets under way.

Oscar-winning Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul - best known for the documentary Searching for Sugar Man - dies at the age of 36.

Mexico announces a fresh security push in Tamaulipas, one of the country's most dangerous states where the intelligence chief was killed last week.

Basketball legend Magic Johnson says he will pray for Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, who is embroiled in an ongoing race row.

A US court stays the execution for a man who was to be the first inmate put to death in the US since a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma in April.

Ukraine is due to host round-table talks in Kiev amid renewed efforts to find a negotiated settlement to the crisis in the east of the country.

Anti-China protests erupt at an industrial area in southern Vietnam amid territorial tensions in the South China Sea.