The US military disciplines more than a dozen service members after an air strike on an Afghan hospital killed 42 people last year.

North Korea fires a ballistic missile off its east coast into the sea, South Korean and US officials say, amid heightened tensions in the region.

EU leaders have agreed a joint position to put to Turkey in an attempt to reach a deal over the migrant crisis, Luxembourg's prime minster says.

Chile's lower house of Congress approves a draft to lift an abortion ban in certain cases, but the proposal still needs Senate backing.

Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf flies to Dubai for medical treatment, days after a court ordered the government to lift a three-year travel ban.

A student who is accused of stabbing four people at a California university was inspired by the so-called Islamic State, the FBI says.

Authorities in Chile say they have rescued 14 people from two rafts, bringing to an end an attempt to emulate the famous Kon-tiki voyage of 1947.

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