Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff meets lawmakers to try to secure support the day before the lower house votes on her impeachment.

Heavy rain and cold temperatures mean a difficult night for tens of thousands of people forced into temporary shelters following two powerful quakes in south-west Japan.

Doctors say the spread of super-gonorrhoea widely across England and to gay men is causing "huge concern" about the ability to treat it in the future.

The French government is "completely committed" to building the UK's Hinkley Point nuclear power plant, France's economy minister tells the BBC.

An "elaborate" Roman villa unearthed by chance in a garden in Wiltshire is described as extraordinarily well-preserved.

The Ethiopian government says armed men have killed 140 people and abducted 39 children in the west of the country, blaming attackers from South Sudan.

More than 150 countries begin switching to a different polio vaccine - an important milestone towards polio eradication, health campaigners say.

A huge earthquake strikes Ecuador, killing at least 28 people and causing damage over a wide area, Vice-President Jorge Glas says.