One of Brazil's richest businessmen and a senior politician are arrested as part of the corruption probe into the state oil giant Petrobras.

A legend of American football, Frank Gifford, suffered from a concussion-related brain injury when he died, his family reveals.

A man who killed his wife and posted a photo of the corpse on Facebook is found guilty of murder by a jury in Florida.

The Turkish military releases an audio recording of what it says were warnings to a Russian warplane before it was shot down on the Syrian border.

A court in Hungary rules that four men detained as suspected terrorists are in fact World War Two enthusiasts.

A Chinese court upholds a guilty verdict against a senior journalist accused of leaking state secrets, but reduces her sentence from seven years to five, her lawyer says.

A regional opposition leader in Venezuela is shot dead at a public meeting, his party says, less than two weeks before parliamentary elections.

Officials from North and South Korea are meeting for rare talks aimed at improving long-strained ties, after a military stand-off in August.