A remote Amazonian community is to be evacuated after uncontacted Indians looking for food raided homes and killed domestic animals

At least 33 people - including women and children - are killed by suspected separatist rebels in India's north-eastern Assam state, police say.

Counter-terrorism police in Sydney arrest two men, and charge one with possession of documents designed to facilitate a terrorist attack.

A global arms trade treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar business comes into force - a move hailed as "a new chapter" by UN chief Ban Ki-moon.

The US president welcomes a decision by Sony to screen a comedy about North Korea - which had been pulled following a cyber-attack and threats - in some US cinemas.

Former US President George Bush Senior has been taken to hospital after suffering from a shortness of breath, his spokesman says.

West Africa's Ebola crisis is likely to last until the end of 2015, says leading researcher Peter Piot, who helped to discover the virus in 1976.

Taxi booking firm Uber has apologised for raising fare prices during a deadly cafe siege in Sydney last week, saying its decision was wrong.