More than 60 people are reported to have died with dozens blinded in Kenya after consuming homemade, contaminated alcohol.

The White House was briefly in lockdown after an unauthorised vehicle entered a restricted area near the US president's residence.

The president of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team has taken an "indefinite leave of absence" as the league prepares to force a sale.

Amethi, a stronghold of India's governing Congress party, is among the 64 seats voting in the eighth phase of India's mammoth general election.

Hollywood stars are urging a boycott of a famous hotel after the owner, Brunei's government, introduced a harsh Islamic penal code.

Ecuador rejects a call for a referendum on whether further oil exploration should take place in an Amazon reserve, saying not enough signatures were collected.

A team of US experts is sent to Nigeria to help find more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.

Chinese internet giant Alibaba files documents for a public share sale in the US, which is widely expected to be one of the biggest in history.