Ska pioneer Prince Buster, who shaped the course of Jamaican music, dies at the age of 78 at his home in Miami.

Jill Stein is charged after video appears to show the US Green Party presidential candidate spray-painting a bulldozer at a pipeline protest.

The Toronto International Film Festival opens later with a raft of films that will spotlight the ongoing diversity debate in Hollywood.

A court in the Indian city of Mumbai gives the death penalty to a man for throwing acid at a woman at a busy railway station three years ago.

More than 11,000 teachers in Turkey are suspended for alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a week before school starts.

A camerawoman who was filmed kicking and tripping up refugees near the Hungary-Serbia border has been charged with breaching the peace.

US media firm Liberty Media is buying the racing business Formula 1, with Bernie Ecclestone to remain as chief executive.

Zimbabwe's ruling party is accused of deliberately withholding aid from opposition supporters in areas facing starvation because of drought.