The UK is to devote more troops to UN peacekeeping, with a deployment to South Sudan, the BBC learns.

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump comes under attack in a fiery debate for the top candidates vying to be their party's presidential nominee.

Indonesia arrests executives from seven companies accused of being behind illegal forest fires causing air pollution in the region.

Scuffles broke out in Japan's upper house ahead of a vote on a controversial move by the government to expand the role of the armed forces.

A Saudi diplomat accused of raping two Nepali women hired as domestic help leaves India under diplomatic immunity, the foreign ministry says.

Sierra Leone's government tells people to stay at home after heavy flooding leaves four dead and causes widespread damage in the capital, Freetown.

At least 170 people have been killed after an oil tanker exploded in South Sudan, officials say.

Police in Berlin shoot dead an Iraqi man who stabbed a policewoman and who had previously been jailed for membership of a terrorist organisation.