President Barack Obama has hit back at a ruling in Texas that brought to a halt his radical immigration plan.

The route used by mountaineers to scale Mount Everest is to be changed for 2015, following last year's avalanche that killed 16.

The US opens a three-day conference on countering worldwide and domestic extremism, after a spate of recent terror attacks.

The US accuses Russia of violating the Minsk agreement on Ukraine, as the UN Security Council unanimously approves the ceasefire deal.

The US pays 87m pesos ($1.97m: £1.28m) to the Philippines over damage caused to a protected reef by a US Navy ship.

UN envoy Staffan de Mistura says Syria is prepared to halt aerial attacks on Aleppo for six weeks as part of a UN "hostility freeze" plan.

Hundreds of millions of Chinese people begin the journey home to celebrate Lunar New Year, in the world's biggest annual human migration.

The governor of the US state of Alabama apologises to India after an Indian grandfather was thrown to the ground by police and left paralysed.