Doping scandals have reduced public interest in the Olympics, according to a poll for the BBC World Service.

Argentina's President Mauricio Macri announces a national plan to fight violence against women.

The Australian teenager who has become the face of a juvenile detention scandal has apologised for his actions.

At least 40 people have been killed by a truck bombing in the Kurdish-controlled city of Qamishli in north-east Syria, state TV reports.

Reports that first-year students were made to simulate a rape scene as part of their induction are to be investigated by the National University of Singapore (NUS).

Native American Chief David Bald Eagle, who appeared in the Oscar-winning 1990 film Dances With Wolves, has died aged 97.

The crashed remains from Flight MH370 could be as much as 500km further north than the current search area, argues a new modelling study.

John Hinckley Jr, who tried to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan in 1981, to be released next month after 35 years.