North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un is healthy, the country's ambassador says, despite the leader's non-appearance in public since September.

Liberian officials appeal to medical staff not to strike over the risk fee paid to them for treating Ebola patients, as the health crisis continues.

American health officials say a breach in protocol is to blame, after a nurse treating an Ebola victim in Texas also became infected.

The BBC is visiting five states in five days to test the mood in America ahead of the mid-term elections. First stop: Ferguson, Missouri.

Exit polls in Bolivia's presidential elections indicate that the incumbent, Evo Morales, has won a third consecutive term in office.

The BBC's John Sudworth heard from one pro-democracy protester in Hong Kong that she would be prepared to resist the police if they started to use force.

Cyclone Hudhud is pounding the eastern Indian coast, causing extensive damage and prompting the evacuation of some 350,000 people.

A US company has developed a way of monitoring an entire neighbourhoods using technology originally developed during the Iraq war.

A Catholic Church leader in Iraq has said that western airstrikes have not done enough to protect the country's Christians, as Quentin Sommerville reports.

Typhoon Vongfong, the strongest storm to hit Japan this year, has made landfall on the country's main islands, after injuring at least 30 in Okinawa.

Thousands of people have marched through the streets of the US city of St Louis on the second day of protests against police violence.

BBC News looks at the key events in the Olympic athlete's life - in 60 seconds.

BBC Global Health correspondent Tulip Mazumdar describes the protective measures taken by journalists covering the Ebola crisis.

In Cuba, young children are learning circus skills with a view to becoming professional performers.

Tulip Mazumdar reports on women volunteers in Sierra Leone trying to educate villagers about Ebola, with the aim of stopping the spread of the virus.

Quentin Sommerville reports Islamic State militants are "pushing back forcefully" and with "renewed vigour" in the battle for the Syrian border town of Kobane.

Pakistani child education activist Malala Yousafzai has said she is honoured to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian child rights campaigner.

BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson travelled with the Iraqi army to the front line with Islamic State outside Baghdad.

At least one person has died after floods swept the Italian city of Genoa

Parts of northern China have suffered the worst bout of smog since July, pushing pollution well past healthy levels and reducing visibility. Martin Patience reports from Beijing.