The Pentagon warns that Donald Trump's call to ban Muslims from the US endangers national security and emboldens Islamic State (IS) militants.

After the Paris attacks, the US House of Representatives votes to restrict visa-free entry for people who have been to Iraq and Syria.

Venezuelan electoral authorities confirm that the opposition has won a key two-thirds majority in parliament giving it the power to make significant changes.

One of the Catholic Church's most senior prelates has said that birth control could "offer a solution" to the impacts of climate change.

Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj is in Islamabad for a security conference on Afghanistan and talks with Pakistani officials.

One of the world's most famous gun-makers, Smith & Wesson, nearly triples its profits in three months to October compared to a year earlier.

The US imposes new sanctions on the North Korean army's Strategic Rocket Force, as well as banks and shipping companies, over weapons proliferation activities.

The US clothing billionaire and keen environmentalist Douglas Tompkins dies in a kayaking accident in southern Chile aged 72.