Guatemala's Prison Service Director Edgar Camargo is arrested and charged with involvement in a lucrative extortion scheme in the country's jails.

The World Health Organisation says more than 1,900 people have now died in West Africa's Ebola outbreak, 40% of them in the past three weeks.

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon lifts the state of emergency declared to combat nights of violent protests in the city of Ferguson last month.

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri announces the creation of an Indian branch of his militant group to "raise the flag of jihad" across South Asia.

The family of US journalist Steven Sotloff speak publicly for the first time since a video of his beheading was released by Islamic Sate militants.

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg returns to the helm of Bloomberg, the data and financial news company he founded.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will brief world leaders on the crisis in his country before the Nato summit gets under way in Wales.

Scores of illegal migrants in the French port of Calais unsuccessfully tried to force their way onto a ferry bound for England, officials say.