A 16-year-old Swedish girl rescued from Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq describes life under the jihadist group's rule as "really hard".

US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) says it is investigating 14 new reports of possible sexual transmission of the Zika virus.

Eleven members of a polygamist Mormon offshoot group are arrested in the US on suspicion of food stamp fraud and money laundering.

Two Indian students accused of sedition for helping organise a protest at Delhi's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), hand themselves into police.

Most of the men who sexually assaulted women in Cologne on New Year's Eve may never be caught, the city's police chief says.

A US jury orders Johnson & Johnson to pay $72m (£51m) to the family of a woman who claimed her death was linked to use of the company's Baby Powder talc.

South Africa's finance minister cuts growth forecast and says there is "no doubt the country is in crisis" ahead of his 2016 Budget speech.

The UN carries out its first air drop of aid in Syria, helping people in a government-held part of Deir al-Zour besieged by Islamic State militants.