Fifteen police officers have been killed and five others wounded after an ambush in the Mexican state of Jalisco, prosecutors say.

The US says it is speeding up weapons deliveries to a Saudi-led coalition bombing Houthi rebels in Yemen.

A white South Carolina police officer is charged with murder over the shooting death of a black man who appeared to be fleeing from him.

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras arrives in Moscow for talks, as his country remains under pressure over its international bailout.

Australia's government establishes a national taskforce to tackle the growing use of crystal methamphetamine, or ice.

Taiwan begins rationing water supplies to more than one million households as it tackles the island's worst drought in years.

Air traffic controllers in France are due to the strike with almost half of all flights going to and from France expected to be cancelled.

A North Korean defector to the South says he has flown thousands of copies of controversial comedy The Interview over the border by balloon.