Louis Cole, aka Fun with Louis, went on a trip to North Korea but says the government did not pay for him to film propaganda.

Firefighters are continuing to tackle a huge blaze in southern California, with several of them describing it as the most ferocious they have ever seen.

Bolivian President Evo Morales opens a new military defence academy, which he says will offer courses to counter the influence of the US in the developing world.

Almost 18,000 people died in government custody in Syria in 2011-15, an Amnesty International report says, alleging beatings and rape in prisons.

Guatemalan officials confirm the country's first case of a baby born with Zika-linked microcephaly.

Syrian activists have released haunting pictures of a young boy rescued from a destroyed building after an air strike in the divided second city of Aleppo.

At least six people have been killed and 219 wounded by car bombs that hit police stations in two cities in eastern Turkey.

South Sudan's sacked Vice-President Riek Machar leaves the country, weeks after deadly clashes between his troops and government forces in the capital.