Around 2,000 Honduran migrants are said to be camped out in eastern Guatemala after security forces used sticks and tear gas to stop their passage towards the US.

Samsung boss Lee Jae-yong has been sent back to jail after receiving a two-and- a-half year sentence over his involvement in a major corruption scandal.

Putin critic Alexei Navalny has urged Russians to "take to the streets" after a judge ordered that he be detained for at least 30 days.  

China has confirmed its bounce-back from the coronavirus crisis as official figures revealed its economy grew by 2.3% last year.

Twelve miners are still alive a week after an explosion trapped 22 workers underground at a Chinese gold mine, state media says.

The risk of political violence increases when people are unable to agree on facts, a leading author on disinformation has warned, as the US braces for more protests from Donald Trump supporters ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration.

Gunmen killed two female judges from Afghanistan's Supreme Court in an early morning ambush, which also saw their driver wounded.

A nurse has become the first person in Brazil to receive a coronavirus jab just hours after the country's health regulator approved two vaccines.

In his first hours as president, Joe Biden is set to roll back some of the most controversial decisions of his predecessor and to address the coronavirus pandemic.

The US says it has intelligence that researchers in a Wuhan lab became sick with COVID-19-like symptoms in autumn 2019 - before the first identified case of the outbreak.