Prominent Burundi human rights activist Pierre Claver Mbonimpa is shot and seriously injured by gunmen on motorbikes, his family says.

The US airline Delta bans the shipment of big game trophies on its flights following the outcry over the killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe.

Pakistan executes Shafqat Hussain, convicted of killing a child in 2004, despite appeals from campaigners and claims that he was a minor when found guilty.

Malaysia's anti-corruption body effectively clears PM Najib Razak of wrongdoing saying funds in his personal accounts were "donations", without saying who from or what for.

Puerto Rico confirms that it failed to make a debt payment at the weekend, in the latest sign of the economic crisis in the US territory.

The body of Bobbi Kristina Brown is taken to a New Jersey cemetery for burial alongside her late mother, Whitney Houston.

At least 11 people die after a building collapsed near India's western city of Mumbai, police say.

Thousands of people in the US state of California are evacuated as fire crews battle a string of wildfires brought on by years of drought.