A female US Army captain who says a general sexually assaulted her weeps as she tells a court he threatened to kill her family.

South Africa expels three Rwandan diplomats in connection with an attack on the home of an exiled Rwandan dissident, diplomatic sources say.

US aerospace company Boeing says it is checking 787 Dreamliner planes under production for potential "hairline cracks" in wings.

Turkey's former army chief Ilker Basbug is released from prison in Istanbul after a local court overturns his conviction for plotting a coup.

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta announces that he and his cabinet will take pay cuts to help reduce the government's ballooning wage bill.

Rubbish is piling up in Rio de Janeiro as the Brazilian city's street cleaners continue a strike, despite an announced agreement with the union.

Malaysia Airlines says it has lost contact with flight MH370 travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

Building gigantic walls across the US could protect Tornado Alley "forever", a physicist says, though critics say the idea is unworkable.