A three-year-old in Oklahoma steered a truck to safety across a four-lane road after his drunken mother fell from the vehicle, police say.

At least 30,000 people in South Sudan are facing starvation and millions more are facing severe hunger because of the civil war, the UN says.

Mexican police find an 800m-long tunnel used to smuggle drugs into the US city of San Diego, authorities say.

Athletes from dozens of indigenous ethnic groups are taking part in the first World Indigenous Games Palmas, Brazil.

Sweden reacts with shock to a deadly school attack by a sword-wielding man who police say is being investigated for possible far-right sympathies.

Jade mining companies connected to Myanmar's army are making vast profits, transparency campaigners say, threatening moves towards democracy.

Three people have been shot and one is reported to be critically wounded at Tennessee State University in Nashville, US police say.

More than 40 pensioners on an excursion have been killed after their bus collided with a truck in south-western France.