South African Paralympic shot-putter Tyrone Pillay says South African Airways refused to allow his prosthetic leg on board as he returned from Brazil.

North Korea carries out a "successful" ground test of a new rocket engine to launch satellites, state media says, the latest in a series of missile-related tests.

The daughter of a late British baron, Maria Aurora Moynihan, is shot dead in Manila, where authorities are fighting a deadly war on drugs.

Former US Republican President George HW Bush reportedly says he will vote for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in November's poll.

Botswana is to deport US pastor Steven Anderson a week after he was barred from South Africa because of his critical remarks about homosexuality.

Players for Venezuela's Trujillanos Football Club are left barefoot and shirtless after their team bus is held up by robbers after a first division game.

Teenage cigarette and alcohol use is declining across Europe but the numbers using cannabis are growing, an EU survey shows.

An Indian immigrant is hailed as a hero after alerting police when he found the New York and New Jersey bombings suspect napping in front of his bar.