Former NFL player Lawrence Phillips, whose career was cut short by disciplinary problems in the 1990s, kills himself in a California prison.

Three opposition politicians in Venezuela agree to give up their seats in the National Assembly to break a political deadlock.

Al Jazeera America will shut down its cable news channel despite spending heavily to break into the US market.

The US wants United Nations help in dealing with thousands of migrants fleeing to the US to escape violence in Central America.

Liberia is to be declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization, effectively putting an end to the world's worst outbreak of the deadly disease.

A bomb blast hits a police building in Turkey's majority-Kurdish Diyarbakir province, reportedly killing five people and injuring at least 36.

The next ice age may have been delayed by more than 50,000 years because of the greenhouse gases emitted by humans, scientists say.

A series of large bomb blasts rock the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, with several people killed and continuing gunfire and explosions on the streets.