Saudi Arabia has privately accepted it was one of its coalition planes that bombed a funeral in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Saturday, the BBC learns.

Samsung has urged owners of the Galaxy Note 7 to turn off the phone while it investigates reports of devices it had deemed safe catching fire.

Burundi bans three UN investigators after they published a report accusing the government of gross human rights violations.

US actress Shailene Woodley is arrested during a protest in North Dakota against a huge oil pipeline that will cross four states.

Colombia's government and the country's second largest rebel group, the ELN, announce the start of formal peace talks on 27 October in Ecuador.

Infections of the Zika virus are "highly likely" to keep spreading in Asia and the Pacific, the World Health Organization (WHO) warns.

A new report by Save the Children says one girl under the age of 15 is married every seven seconds.

A top Pakistani journalist says he is barred from leaving the country, after he reported a row between military and government officials.