A boy who was arrested for taking a homemade clock to class in Texas is asking his city and school for $15m (£10m).

A Russian court rules the Moscow branch of the Church of Scientology should be dissolved, as it cannot be considered a religious organisation under the law.

The US state department issues a worldwide travel alert for American citizens in response to "increased terrorist threats".

The US is to place four current and former officials in Burundi under sanctions in connection with the continuing violence there.

Scores of migrants are spending another night stuck on the Greece-Macedonia border after they were not allowed to continue their journey.

French police examine what appears to be a suicide bomb belt dumped on a Paris street, 10 days after the attacks that killed 130 people.

A small bomb explodes in central Athens, causing minor damage but no injuries - the first such incident since the radical left took power in January.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says he hopes to visit North Korea "at the earliest time", but that no decision has been made.