Brazil's suspended lower house Speaker Eduardo Cunha suffers a major blow after a committee voted in favour of stripping him of his seat in Congress.

US authorities charge Chinese national Xu Jiaqiang, a former IBM employee, with espionage for allegedly stealing source code.

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

The founder of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba says fake products are often better quality than originals, complicating anti-counterfeit efforts.

Nine schools in Burundi are being investigated after photos of the president were defaced in text books.

There is "no question" that a boy seized by an alligator near the Orlando Disney resort is dead, Florida police say.

Nigeria plans to allow the embattled naira to trade freely against the dollar in a bid to control a currency crisis.

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