The UK is to devote more troops to UN peacekeeping, with a deployment to South Sudan, the BBC learns.

A powerful 8.3 magnitude earthquake hits central Chile, causing buildings to sway in the capital Santiago and prompting officials to issue a tsunami alert.

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump comes under attack in a fiery debate for the top candidates vying to be their party's presidential nominee.

The execution of an Oklahoma inmate charged with murder-for-hire set for Wednesday has been delayed two weeks so lawyers can review new evidence.

Indonesia arrests executives from seven companies accused of being behind illegal forest fires causing air pollution in the region.

Scuffles broke out in Japan's upper house ahead of a vote on a controversial move by the government to expand the role of the armed forces.

Mozambique removes the last of its 171,000 known landmines after two decades of work to get rid of the explosives, a British charity says.

Presidential guard officers in Burkina Faso oust the government in an apparent coup, weeks ahead of national elections.