Republican Donald Trump describes US President Barack Obama as the "founder" of the Islamic State group and Hillary Clinton as co-founder.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump incited violence when he said gun rights supporters could stop her from winning.

Italy dissolves the municipal administration of Corleone, believing the Sicilian town's government has been infiltrated by the mafia.

The authorities in the Colombian capital, Bogota, begin demolishing a notorious district in the centre of the city called the Bronx.

Kurdish PKK rebels have carried out two bomb attacks on police in the mainly Kurdish south-east of Turkey, killing at least eight people, officials say.

The last doctors in the rebel-held east of the Syrian city of Aleppo urge US President Barack Obama to come to the aid of 250,000 civilians there.

New York police have arrested a man who tried to scale Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan using rope and suction cups.

Wildfires in southern France threaten the city of Marseille, burning homes and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of residents.