Hawaiians are bracing for their first hurricane in 22 years as Iselle threatens the US island chain, closely followed by Julio.

At least one person is reported killed as floods hit Serbia and Bosnia, three months after heavy flooding killed almost 80 people in the region.

Militants with suspected ties to Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram raid a village in northern Cameroon, police say, killing 10 people.

US President Barack Obama has hailed a new emerging Africa, on the last day of a summit in Washington DC with 40 African leaders.

Cambodia's UN-backed court is to deliver its verdict in the war crimes trial of Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, the last surviving top Khmer Rouge leaders.

The lawyer for Alan Gross, a US government contractor imprisoned in Cuba, says he does not know how long he will survive in jail.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf declares a state of emergency as the country grapples with an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus.

The murder trial of South African athlete Oscar Pistorius resumes for two days of closing arguments after months of evidence.