A civil disobedience pro-democracy movement aiming to paralyse parts of Hong Kong with a massive sit-in has issued its demands.

A police officer is shot - reportedly in the arm - in the strife-torn US town of Ferguson, Missouri, but the officer's condition is unclear.

Thirty hikers are feared dead after being found in cardiac arrest near the peak of erupting Japan volcano Mount Ontake, officials say.

Serbia is to hold a Gay Pride march in the capital Belgrade amid massive security, after being called off for several years.

US-led coalition aircraft target four makeshift oil refineries under Islamic State control in Syria, with explosions reported near the Turkish border.

Thousands of Indian-Americans gather at Madison Square Garden in New York in a festive atmosphere to hear Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Syrian militant group al-Nusra Front denounces US-led air strikes as "a war against Islam", as the campaign against Islamic State continues.

A court in Cuba sentences the president of a Canadian transport company to 15 years in jail and seizes assets worth $100m (£62m).