A vast mayfly swarm in the US causes motorcycle crashes and the closure of a Pennsylvania bridge, the authorities there say.

A senior Islamist leader who ordered a deadly attack on an Algerian gas plant in 2013 has been killed in a US air strike, Libyan officials say.

The Colombian army says it has killed a top military commander from the country's second largest guerrilla group, the National Liberation Front.

Nepal is set to reopen all heritage sites in the Kathmandu valley to the public, in a bid to attract tourists after April's devastating earthquake.

Another patient dies in South Korea amid an outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers), bringing the total number of fatalities to 16.

An Australian inquiry into child sex abuse is to put the spotlight on the entertainment industry after a series of high-profile cases.

Pressure grows for an inquiry into whether Australian officials used tax payers' money to turn back a boat carrying asylum seekers.

A North Korean soldier walks across the DMZ to defect to the South, officials say, in what is an extremely rare occurrence.