A fire destroys the famous Baroque church of San Sebastian in the Peruvian colonial city of Cusco.

The site of the world's biggest beer festival will be fenced off for the first time, with mandatory security checks for the millions of revellers expected to attend.

Canadian author WP Kinsella, whose book Shoeless Joe became the hit film Field of Dreams, dies aged 81 in a doctor-assisted death.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Syrian rebel groups are exploiting the current ceasefire to regroup, amid tensions with the US.

Thousands reportedly defy a curfew in Kashmir to attend the funeral of a schoolboy whose body was found riddled with shotgun pellet wounds.

Islamist militants in the Philippines release a Norwegian man who was taken hostage with two Canadians who were earlier beheaded.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari blames an "overzealous" staff member for plagiarising parts of a speech by Barack Obama.

Tens of thousands of people have been protesting in cities across Germany against proposed transatlantic trade deals between the EU and the US and Canada.