Drivers in the Nigerian capital of Lagos were asked to refrain from using their car horns for one day.

The BBC's Alastair Leithead visited the National Biocontainment Training Centre in Galveston, Texas to try on a bio-hazard suit and see just how hard it is to guarantee the safety of Ebola doctors and nurses.

An American Airlines flight heading from San Francisco to Dallas made an emergency landing after the cabin's wall panels cracked loose.

This week our North America Correspondent, Aleem Maqbool, is travelling to a different state each day along the so-called Blues Highway, looking at some of the big issues, and how they're being reflected in the music of today.

An American Airlines flight heading from San Francisco to Dallas made an emergency landing after the cabin's wall panels cracked loose.

Crowds of pro-democracy protesters have clashed with riot police in Hong Kong as tensions escalate following more than two weeks of demonstrations.

A UK company is training Kurdish Peshmerga forces to defuse explosives left behind by Islamic State militants in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Hundreds of police in Hong Kong have moved again to try to clear pro-democracy protesters out of an underpass near the city government headquarters.

The progress towards a vaccine against Ebola in 80 seconds.

Police use chainsaws and bolt-cutters to dismantle barricades put up by pro-democracy activists near the government offices in Hong Kong.

The US mid-term elections are exactly three weeks away. Our BBC North America Correspondent Aleem Maqbool is on the second day of his road trip down the so-called 'Blues Highway' looking at some of the big election issues, and at how those concerns are being reflected in the music of the day.

It has been six months since more than 200 school girls were abducted in north east Nigeria and two parents have spoken to the BBC about the "desperate" situation.

South African athlete Oscar Pistorius returns to court for sentencing after being convicted of killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp

Brazil has a strong cinema industry and has joined forces with UK film-makers in a pioneering co-production led by British director Stephen Daldry.

The foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, has been holding talks in Baghdad on efforts to combat Islamic State militants, who control significant parts Iraq and Syria.

South African athlete Oscar Pistorius should not go to jail over the killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, a court has been told.

Typhoon Vongfong, the strongest storm to hit Japan this year. makes landfall on the country's main islands.

Opponents of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong try to dismantle the main protest camp, leading to scuffles with police and activists.

A fighter with the Free Syrian Army battling Islamic State militants in Kobane, in Syria has spoken to the BBC about life on the front line.

Voice of America News' Benno Muchler reports on a burial teams in the Liberian capital Monrovia and the grim and risky task of dealing with the infected bodies of Ebola victims.