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.

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.

A military operation to recapture the Iraqi city of Mosul from so-called Islamic State has begun, PM Haider al-Abadi says.

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.

The UK and France are expected to push for strong condemnation of Russia and Syria as EU foreign ministers meet to discuss the war in Syria.

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.