Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to make a Kurdish protester who took down the national flag "pay the price".

The South African government has pulled out as mediator, as talks between platinum miners and striking workers fail again.

The new Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi, denies that there is a family rift over his appointment, following clashes in the Nigerian city.

A man accused of kidnapping a teenager and holding her captive for 10 years, and forcing her to marry him pleads not guilty in a California court.

One person dies and two others are injured after a section of a prestigious monorail project in Sao Paulo collapses.

Six dancers with Cuba's National Ballet have arrived in Miami after defecting while on tour in Puerto Rico at the weekend.

The death toll from the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone has doubled to at least 12 in one week, officials say, with hopes of containing the outbreak fading.

The US Supreme Court refuses to allow BP to stop paying compensation claims over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.