Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert is ordered to serve 18 months in jail for bribery, as a longer sentence is reduced by the Supreme Court.

Argentina launches a major security operation to arrest three high-profile convicts who escaped from a high security prison on Sunday.

China expresses anger after Filipino protesters landed on a remote island controlled by the Philippines in the disputed South China Sea.

Central American nations will allow some 7,000 Cuban migrants stranded in the region to continue towards the US.

Guinea is to be declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization (WHO), two years after the epidemic began there.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says Islamic State militants will be ousted from the country, after government forces retook Ramadi.

Two Australian government ministers resign over separate scandals, in the first major setback for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull since he took office.

A Texas teenager who avoided jail over a fatal drink-driving crash by claiming he suffered from "affluenza" is detained by police in Mexico.