Human Rights Watch says its year-long inquiry into the deaths of hundreds of protesters in Cairo in 2013 found evidence of systematic killings.

The US defends Secretary of State John Kerry's stay in a hotel owned by a man linked to Myanmar's ex-junta, saying it was not blacklisted.

US President Barack Obama says the nomination of Haider al-Abadi as Iraq's prime minister-designate is a "promising step forward".

A Canadian man accused of killing three police officers in June in Moncton, New Brunswick, has pleaded guilty to all charges.

Actor Robin Williams, star of Dead Poets Society and Good Will Hunting, has died at home in California in an apparent suicide, say police.

Venezuela deploys 17,000 troops along its Colombian border, which will be closed every night for a month as part of an anti-smuggling operation.

The family of an unarmed black teenager killed by police in the US city of St Louis have called for justice for their son, as the FBI opens an investigation.

Liberia will receive an untested experimental drug, Zmapp, to treat people infected with Ebola, the government says following a request to the US.