A judge approves a plan worth $1bn (£664.6m) to compensate former American football players with head injuries.

The US accuses Russia of deploying more air defence systems in eastern Ukraine in breach of February's ceasefire agreement.

An experimental drug has cured monkeys infected with the strain of the Ebola virus present in West Africa, US-based scientists say.

The Calbuco volcano in southern Chile erupts for the first time in more than four decades, sending a plume of smoke and ash several kilometres high.

A massive clean-up begins in NSW after violent storms left four people dead and tens of thousands without power in the Australian state.

Pope Francis will travel to Cuba in September ahead of his visit to the United States, the Vatican announces.

French police have foiled five recent terror plots, Prime Minister Manuel Valls says, amid tightened security in the wake of attacks in January.

Li Chuncheng, an ally of China's former security chief Zhou Yongkang, goes on trial for corruption, said authorities.