Former boxing champion Mike Tyson met Toronto Mayor Rob Ford at his city hall office.

The Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra from the troubled Democratic Republic of Congo gives its first UK concert in Manchester on Thursday.

Andrew Harding profiles Judge Thokozile Masipa, who grew up in a poor township outside Johannesburg, and became the second black woman to become a judge in South Africa.

A medical charity says it cannot cope with the volume of Ebola patients in Liberia.

Staff at a pizzeria in Italy successfully fend off would-be robbers - despite being held up at gun point.

Escalating tensions between Yemen's government and the armed Shia Houthi movement are threatening to plunge one of the poorest countries in the Middle East into a wide-scale armed conflict.

New footage from the MH17 crash site in eastern Ukraine shows rebels roaming amongst the wreckage, as Nomia Iqbal reports.

Film critic Christian Blauvelt and entertainment reporter Emma Jones chat with Tom Brook about highlights of this year's Toronto International Film Festival.

MH17 Dutch experts say Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed in eastern Ukraine after being hit by 'numerous objects' that 'pierced the plane at high speed'.

A woman, Reefat Drabu, who escaped flooding in Indian-administered Kashmir says people were given no warning they should evacuate the area.

A 50-year-old man has been killed in a shark attack off a beach in Byron Bay, the most easterly point on the Australian mainland, officials say

A 50-year-old man has been killed in a shark attack off a beach in Byron Bay, the most easterly point on the Australian mainland, officials say.

Dramatic pictures have emerged of a recently closed rollercoaster in Los Angeles that collapsed after fire broke out on the wooden frame.

Brain tumour patient Ashya King is in the Czech Republic for proton beam treatment and his father has thanked the public for their support.

Despite a ceasefire in Ukraine the number of children killed during the conflict has risen to 23.

Costumed street performers in New York have staged a protest against a proposed law which will mean licensing, background checks and other regulations for them.

The BBC's Reda El Mawy speaks to Abdul Razzak Mohamed Ali about his decision to come out of retirement and take up arms against Islamic State.

Prince William says he and his wife Catherine are "thrilled" at the fact they are expecting their second child.

Andrew North joins rescue workers in Pakistan who are still searching for people trapped after a week of damaging floods.

Amateur prospectors in California are using the long-running drought to their advantage, panning for gold in newly exposed riverbeds.