US politician and civil rights leader John Lewis hails the opening of the Smithsonian Institution's new National Museum of African American History and Culture.

A suspect sought over a deadly gun attack at a shopping centre in Washington state has been arrested and named as Arcan Cetin, 20.

A Jordanian writer charged with offending Islam after sharing a satirical cartoon on his Facebook page is killed in the capital Amman.

Jose Fernandez, a pitcher for the Miami Marlins baseball team, dies along with two others in a boat crash aged 24.

Thousands of people protest in Mexico City against a government proposal to legalise same sex-marriage, which they say undermines traditional families.

Bosnian Serbs are voting on whether to maintain 9 January as a national holiday in defiance of Bosnia's highest court.

The world's largest radio telescope has received its first signals from space and is now entering an intensive testing phase.

The disputed leader of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram releases a video denying claims he had been killed or badly wounded in air strike.