A US treasure hunter - who spent years evading authorities - will go to prison rather than testify about the gold he discovered in a historic shipwreck.

Canada carries out its first air strikes in Syria, as part of the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State militants.

The US deports Carlos Vides Casanova, a general during El Salvador's civil war, over alleged abuses while he was in command.

A US woman is sentenced to 20 years for making her five-year-old son sick and eventually killing him in order to gain attention online.

The rights group Amnesty International says it has evidence pro-Russian separatists summarily killed four Ukrainian soldiers in their captivity.

France's TV5Monde television network says a number of its sites have been hijacked by Islamic State hackers.

US President Barack Obama has condemned psychiatric therapies designed to "repair" gay, lesbian and transgender youth.

North Korea accuses Mexico of illegally holding one of its ships, but the UN says it belongs to a firm blacklisted for violating sanctions.