US President Barack Obama will meet the Dalai Lama at the White House despite Chinese objections.

More than 50 humanitarian organisations operating in Syria accuse the UN of breaching its principles by effectively letting the government control aid deliveries.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says it is impossible to ignore "outrageous provocations" by England football fans at the Euro 2016 tournament in France.

Police search for a two-year-old boy who was dragged into water by an alligator near a Disney resort in Orlando, Florida.

An ex-government minister in Argentina was arrested after he was spotted trying to hide millions of dollars in cash in a monastery.

Members of the rock band Led Zeppelin appear in court in a copyright dispute over the 1971 hit Stairway To Heaven.

An Islamic preacher who says homosexuals should be put to death and who lectured near Orlando in April has left Australia after his visa was reviewed.

Yoichi Masuzoe resigns as the governor of Tokyo amid a scandal over the alleged use of public funds for private holidays and gifts.