Iranian Para-cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad dies following a crash during the men's C4-5 road race at the Rio Paralympics.

US playwright Edward Albee, author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, dies near New York aged 88

A group of Central European countries is ready to veto any Brexit deal that would limit right to work in the UK, Slovakian PM Robert Fico says.

About 980 million litres of radioactive water have leaked into Florida's main underground source of drinking water, officials say.

North Carolina police arrest a woman three months after her mother's body was discovered inside a freezer that she sold at a yard sale.

A fire destroys the famous Baroque church of San Sebastian in the Peruvian colonial city of Cusco.

The president of the European Council says British PM Theresa May told him she could trigger the Brexit process by February.

Republican candidate Donald Trump is accused again of hinting at an assassination of his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton.