Ethiopia's army has surrounded the area in neighbouring South Sudan where it believes more than 100 abducted Ethiopian children are being held, local media report.

Volkswagen to offer "substantial compensation" and car buy-back deals in the US as part of a settlement of the diesel emissions scandal.

A large explosion rocks an oil facility in the south-east Mexican state of Veracruz, injuring at least 30 people.

One of the longest cross-border drugs-smuggling tunnels between Mexico and the US has been found by authorities in San Diego, US officials say.

China's President Xi Jinping is named commander in chief of a military command centre, in his latest move to increase his control of the armed forces.

Part of a coastal cycleway in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro collapses, killing at least two people.

Lawyers for Edward Snowden file a lawsuit to seek guarantees that Norway will not extradite him to the US if he visits to receive an award.

The zero-fuel aeroplane, Solar Impulse, renews its effort to circumnavigate the globe, leaving Hawaii to fly across the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco.