A woman due to testify against her Danish husband, who is accused of mutilating women and keeping genitalia parts in a freezer, is shot dead in Lesotho.

New Mexico police take a man into custody after a four-year-old girl was killed in an apparent road rage dispute.

The Cuban government, working with a US environmental group, announces a long-term plan to protect shark populations swimming in its waters.

A commission of inquiry in India concludes that the lynching of a man over rumours he kept and consumed beef was premeditated.

Germany insists it was responsible for the Holocaust after Israel's prime minister claimed a Palestinian leader told the Nazis to kill Europe's Jews.

A leading expert tells the BBC that rapid rates of warming will see permafrost in parts of Alaska start to thaw by 2070.

France announces new heated tents for women and child migrants in the port city of Calais, as hundreds more police are to be deployed.

Mexican officials say they have arrested six key people who allegedly helped fugitive drug cartel leader Joaquin Guzman escape from jail in July.