A Beijing-based columnist who raised alarm over a controversial letter calling for President Xi Jinping's resignation is missing, his lawyer says.

An electrician dies in Los Angeles after falling 53 storeys from the site of what will be the US West Coast's tallest building.

Guinea confirms two new Ebola cases, almost three months after it celebrated the end of the outbreak.

A gas facility jointly run by Norway's Statoil and BP comes under rocket attack but no one is hurt, officials say.

Fingerprints of Paris attack suspect Salah Abdeslam are found in a Brussels flat raided this week, Belgian officials say.

Rival Islamist militant groups al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Boko Haram stage separate attacks in Niger, killing four members of the security forces, officials say.

Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has been wounded and arrested in an anti-terrorism raid in Brussels, officials say.

US Defence Secretary Ash Carter nominates General Lori Robinson as the first female to lead a combatant command at the Pentagon.