Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza's attempt to return home to tackle a coup fails and he has returned to Tanzania, officials there say.

Afghan police say a least five killed, including a US citizen, in a hotel attack in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul.

The FARC rebel movement in Colombia is asking the government to include a smaller guerrilla group, the ELN in peace talks as soon as possible, to end more than fifty ears of conflict.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in China on a visit intended to boost economic ties but in danger of being overshadowed by mutual mistrust.

Rescue workers try to reach at least 15 miners trapped underground when a gold mine in north-western Colombia collapsed.

The US House of Representatives votes to end the National Security Agency's bulk collection of Americans' phone records.

The global pharmaceutical industry is being called on to pay for a $2bn innovation fund to revitalise research into antibiotics.

The death toll in a fire that destroyed a footwear factory in the Philippine capital, Manila, rises to 72, officials say.