Airlines in Australia, Europe and Asia ban Samsung's Galaxy Note 7, after reports some phones have caught fire.

Twenty-one schoolgirls who had been kidnapped by the Islamist group Boko Haram in the Nigerian town of Chibok have been reunited with their families.

The last king of Rwanda dies aged 80 in the US after years of exile in the US where he set up a charity helping Rwandan refugees.

Austria's government is to demolish the house where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 in a bid to stop it becoming a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis.

Friends and relatives of a missing American man are concerned because his Facebook page has become active, but they have not seen him for more than a month.

Three men, including a father and son, are charged in the fatal Kentucky shooting of Trinity Gay, the daughter of US track athlete Tyson Gay.

Clashes between two rival factions kill at least 25 inmates in an overcrowded prison in northern Brazil, local media report.

A Republican Party office in North Carolina has been damaged by fire, with a nearby building spray-painted with an anti-GOP slogan, authorities say.