Seventeen people are killed as a fire tears through a building housing elderly people in a village near the Ukrainian capital Kiev.

Olympiakos striker Alan Pulido has been kidnapped in Mexico's northern border state of Tamaulipas, officials say.

The German airline, Lufthansa, says it will suspend flights to Venezuela from next month due to growing economic difficulties in the country.

The parents of a seven-year-old boy missing in the mountains of northern Japan admit that they left him alone in the woods as a punishment.

The US Libertarian Party picks Gary Johnson as its presidential nominee, seeking to capitalise on disaffection with mainstream politicians.

A German opposition leader, Sahra Wagenknecht, has a chocolate cake shoved in her face in an apparent protest over her stance on migrants.

Pakistan's media regulator bans commercials for family planning products after complaints that they prompted curiosity in "innocent children".

A flotilla of EU ships rescue more than 600 migrants from smugglers' boats off Libya, bringing the weekly total to at least 13,000.