US Democratic senators stage a filibuster to try to force a vote on gun control, as wakes are held for victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting.

German carmaker Volkswagen plans huge investment to launch 30 all-electric models as it repositions itself as a "green" transport leader.

Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing Kee says his confession on Chinese TV for 'illegal trading' was forced on him.

The cockpit voice recorder from the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month has been recovered with its memory intact, Egyptian investigators say.

US President Barack Obama is to meet survivors and bereaved families in Orlando, four days after the worst mass shooting in modern US history.

Haiti faces a power vacuum as the mandate of interim President Jocelerme Privert lapses with no solution to the country's political crisis.

Brazilian interim President Michel Temer is implicated in a bribery scheme at the state oil company, Petrobras.

Niger says the bodies of 34 migrants, including 20 children, have been found in the Sahara Desert near the border with Algeria.