The Eagles founder and guitarist Glenn Frey has died at the age of 67, the band announces on its website.

The world should find fairer ways of resettling Syrian refugees fleeing the war in their country, the new UN refugee agency chief says.

A 26-year-old Algerian asylum seeker becomes the first suspect to be arrested over alleged sexual offences in Cologne on New Year's Eve.

Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos enacts a law that imposes tougher sentences on the perpetrators of acid attacks, a major concern in the country.

Pupils in the poorest countries are suffering from a lack of basic textbooks, according to a report from a United Nations agency.

An Amnesty report into child labour in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo raises questions for electronic firms.

China's economy grew by 6.9% in 2015, compared with 7.3% a year earlier, marking its slowest growth in 25 years.

The French defence minister is to visit the site of an avalanche in the French Alps that killed five French Foreign Legionnaires.