El Salvador provides security escorts for buses forced to observe a strike called by criminal gangs, after several drivers were killed.

A further five Chilean ex-army soldiers are charged over the burning of two teenagers during a 1986 protest against Gen Augusto Pinochet.

Greenpeace protesters are removed from a bridge in Portland, allowing an icebreaker to leave to join an Arctic oil drilling operation.

SoulCycle, the indoor cycling fitness chain with a celebrity following in the US, including David Beckham and Lady Gaga, plans to float on the stock market.

The social network Facebook announces it has built its own drone to bring internet connectivity to remote parts of the world.

An Australian surfer punches a shark to fend off an attack off New South Wales, say police, in what a witness calls a "Mick Fanning replay".

It is "very likely" debris found on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion is that of the missing flight MH370, a top Australian official tells the BBC.

North Korea says a detained Canadian pastor has confessed to a "subversive plot" to overthrow the government and set up a "religious state".