Hong Kong pro-democracy activists clash with police as they try to encircle government HQ, in a fresh outbreak of unrest.

Australian police are investigating after the body of a baby is found buried at a beach in Sydney, a week after another baby was found abandoned in a drain.

The UN's Ebola mission chief tells the BBC that there is still a "huge risk" that the deadly virus could spread to other countries.

Nearly 2,000 couples get married at an indoors sports venue in the biggest mass wedding ceremony in Rio de Janeiro's history.

Delegates are set to meet in Peru to try and agree a negotiating text for a new global climate deal to be signed at the end of 2015.

A video of two sisters beating up three men, who were allegedly sexually harassing them on a moving bus in India, goes viral on social media.

After one season of playing American football, some teenagers appear to show changes in their brains even when they did not suffer concussion, a small study suggests.

One person has died and at least 52 are missing after a South Korean fishing boat sank off Russia's far eastern Chukotka peninsula, officials say.