The US will defend itself and its "treaty ally" South Korea in the face of North Korean threats, Secretary of State John Kerry says.

Prosecutors in Brazil charge four people with manslaughter over the deaths of 241 people in a nightclub fire in January in the city of Santa Maria.

Israel carries out an air strike on the Gaza Strip for the first time since an eight-day war ended in a truce last November.

US schools should train and arm staff members and appoint an armed guard to respond to shootings, a powerful US gun-rights group says in a new report.

New York's Dow Jones share index sets a new all-time high, as does the broader based S&P 500 index.

EU-mediated talks between Serbia and Kosovo break up without a deal as the status of Serb-dominated northern Kosovo remains a stumbling block.

An ex-convict suspected in the death of Colorado's prisons chief shed a parolee monitoring device days before the murder, officials say.

Pakistani youth believe that Sharia law is the best political system, a British Council survey suggests.