More than 500 homes and about 1,200 residents have been evacuated in an area east of the California state capital Sacramento due to a wildfire.

Up to 230,000 Ukrainians have had to flee their homes because of intense fighting in the east of the country.

A woman and her baby had a lucky escape, when they narrowly avoided being involved in a car accident in San Francisco.

The airline of Dubai's government is flying huge amounts of aid to Gaza.

France's president has promised that the bodies of 118 people who died when an Air Algerie plane crashed in Mali will be brought to France.

Israel has accepted a UN request for a 24-hour ceasefire in Gaza, but warns the army will act if it is breached by Palestinian militants.

French police fired tear gas as clashes broke out at a banned pro-Palestinian demonstration on Saturday, as thousands defied a ban on the protest.

Earlier this week, fighters from the Sunni extremist group Isis blew up a well-known shrine in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

Millions of people could face starvation unless more is done to stave off a looming famine in South Sudan, UNICEF and the World Food Programme have warned.

Nigeria's health minister has confirmed that Ebola caused the death of a Liberian man who died in quarantine in Lagos.

Fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) say they have taken over a large Syrian army base on the outskirts of the city of Raqqa in north-eastern Syria.

Many residents of Sloviansk are now returning home, after pro-Russian insurgents were pushed out of the eastern Ukrainian city at the beginning of July.

Many Pakistanis are complaining that Ramadan has become too commercial over the last few years, and is losing its true spirit.

A new surge of violence is sweeping through the Central African Republic despite a ceasefire agreement between rival armed groups.

Efforts to secure a ceasefire between Israel and the militant Hamas movement are intensifying as the death toll in the 18-day conflict continues to climb.

America's longest serving volunteer weather observer, 101-year-old Richard G Hendrickson, will be honoured on Sunday for 84 years service.

Social media footage has emerged purporting to show the Sunni Islamist group Isis blowing up a shrine in the Iraqi city of Mosul.

In the last eight months alone, nearly 60,000 children have crossed the border illegally into the United States, in the hope of a better life.

Soldiers and recovery teams are continuing to clear the wreckage from a plane crash on a Taiwanese island that killed 48 people.

Benjamin Lawsky, Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, is known as the toughest cop on Wall Street.