Police in Cyprus have persuaded nearly 300 migrants, thought to be Syrian refugees, to disembark from the cruise ship that had rescued them.

South Africa's first gay-friendly mosque, which also allows women to lead prayers, must close says local authorities.

A South Carolina state trooper is sacked and arrested after shooting an unarmed black man whom he had just pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt.

Almost 350 people, said to be Syrian refugees, are refusing to disembark from a cruise ship that rescued them from a small boat stranded off Cyprus.

Ashleigh Nghiem reports on how the performing horses of the Cavalia circus are looked after.

The French government has unveiled controversial new measures to cut the number of smokers, including introducing plain cigarette packaging.

Yolande Knell reports on life inside one of Iraq's largest refugee camps, Baharka, in Erbil.

France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy re-launches his political career with a campaign rally outside Lille.

A British jihadist who knew Ibrahim Kamara, the 19-year-old from Brighton believed to have been killed in a US airstrike on Aleppo earlier this week, speaks about their time in Syria.

Sierra Leone's government has quarantined more than a million people in an attempt to control the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.

There has been renewed fighting around the Syrian town of Kobane - intensifying the surge of refugees trying to cross into Turkey.

A club, named the Furiousness Centre, that allows guests to vent their anger and aggression, has opened in Hungary.

President Barack Obama told the UN than the spread of Ebola in Africa represented a "threat to regional and global security".

Victoria Beckham has been named a UNAIDS International Goodwill Ambassador.

Children's drawings of sea creatures come to life on a projected wall in a virtual aquarium in Tokyo.

Members of Baghdad's Shia community visit a holy shrine to mark a significant day in the faith's calendar.

Afrobeats artist Castro went missing while using jet skis holidaying with Gyan in July

World leaders at the UN discuss the Islamic State crisis, as US and Arab jets bomb targets in Syria for a second day.

The Occupy Central movement is planning more protests in Hong Kong over Beijing's restriction of democratic elections.

Three more districts quarantined as nearly 600 people have died of the virus in Sierra Leone and two eastern districts have been isolated since the beginning of August