Officials in South Sudan say China has agreed to loan it $8bn (£4.9bn) for major development projects, following a presidential visit to Beijing.

The leader of last month's coup in Mali rejects the decision by the West African regional body Ecowas to send troops to the country.

Hundreds of indigenous Bolivians are on a second long march in protest at government plans to build a road through the Amazon rainforest.

A US jury convicts a Somali man of piracy for serving as a hostage negotiator in the hijacking of a US yacht where all four on board were killed.

The US Secret Service tightens rules on drinking and behaviour on foreign trips, as it battles with the fallout from a sex scandal in Colombia.

A green-feathered headdress said to have belonged to the last Aztec emperor could return to Mexico from Austria after the senate changed its rules.

Lebanon's navy is holding a ship it says was carrying a large consignment of arms and ammunition thought to be destined for Syrian rebels.

A French journalist goes missing as Colombia's Farc rebels kill four soldiers trying to destroy cocaine laboratories in the southern Caqueta region.