Germany has had almost 500 attacks on asylum hostels so far this year - three times more than in 2014.

A new Ebola scare is reported in the southern Nigerian city of Calabar, a year after the country was declared free of the virus.

Fifa needs a "credible external presidential candidate" to replace the suspended Sepp Blatter, says the IOC president.

The UN envoy for Libya proposes a national unity government, after months of negotiations between the country's two rival authorities.

Nauru has rowed back on a pledge to process within a week all 600 outstanding refugee claims from asylum seekers at an Australia-funded centre.

Police in Brazil arrest nine of their fellow officers suspected of carrying out a series of killings on the outskirts of Sao Paulo in August.

The head of the International Monetary Fund tells the BBC that the outlook for China, the world's second-largest economy, is not all "doom and gloom".

A new study warns that a third of all men currently under the age of 20 in China will die prematurely if they do not give up smoking.