A 16-year-old Swedish girl rescued from Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq describes life under the jihadist group's rule as "really hard".

US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) says it is investigating 14 new reports of possible sexual transmission of the Zika virus.

Republican presidential hopefuls are facing off in the US state of Nevada in the fourth test to win the party's nomination for president.

Eleven members of a polygamist Mormon offshoot group are arrested in the US on suspicion of food stamp fraud and money laundering.

Two Indian students accused of sedition for helping organise a protest at Delhi's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), hand themselves into police.

A small passenger plane with at least 21 people on board, including two foreigners, is missing in a mountainous area of Nepal, officials say.

Most of the men who sexually assaulted women in Cologne on New Year's Eve may never be caught, the city's police chief says.

The death toll in Fiji jumps to 42 amid fears for remote areas and islands yet to be reached by relief teams, days after a devastating cyclone.