President Obama is to visit Cuba in the coming weeks as part of a broader trip to Latin America, reports say.

A Kenyan air strike kills the intelligence chief of Somalia's militant Islamist group al-Shabab, an army statement says.

At least 53 people die after a coach full of passengers collided head-on with a truck in northern Ghana in one of the country's worst accidents in many years.

Pope Francis has hinted that the Catholic Church could relax its ban on contraception for women at risk of contracting the Zika virus.

An Israeli man has been stabbed to death by two Palestinian teenagers in the occupied West Bank, officials say.

A fast-growing tumbleweed called "hairy panic" is clogging up homes in a small Australian town.

Egypt has ordered the closure of the country's last remaining centre for treatment and documentation of alleged torture victims.

People across Uganda begin voting in presidential elections, with incumbent Yoweri Museveni seeking to extend his 30-year rule.