South Carolina's Senate passes a bill to remove the Confederate flag from the state capitol following the killing of nine black people at a church in June.

Hungarian MPs pass legislation to give the government the power to close the borders to all migrants and build a border fence.

The US-led coalition fighting Islamic State is "intensifying" its campaign against the group's base in northern Syria, President Barack Obama says.

Jerry Weintraub - the Hollywood producer of the Karate Kid and Ocean's Eleven films - dies in California aged 77, US media say.

US comedian Bill Cosby admitted in 2005 to obtaining sedatives with the intent of giving them to women he wanted to have sex with, court documents say.

New rules aimed at reducing Brazil's high number of caesarean births come into force.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is to present new proposals at a eurozone emergency summit on his country's growing debt crisis.

At least 14 people are killed in a gun attack near Kenya's border with Somalia, blamed on Islamist group al-Shabab.