Nigeria’s authorities have shut down three leading drugs companies after a BBC investigation into addiction to cough syrup containing codeine.

Facebook has fired an employee after he was found to be using access to personal data to stalk women.

A 26-storey building has collapsed after being engulfed in flames in Brazil’s largest city, São Paulo.

The southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh recorded 36,749 lightning strikes in just a 13-hour period on Tuesday.

A Mexican rapper has confessed to disposing of the bodies of three missing film students by dissolving them in acid.

Nicaraguan police have released dozens of students and lecturers arrested in protests triggered by planned changes to the social security system.

The Canadian government has recalled families of its diplomatic staff in the Cuban capital, Havana.

Three people have died in a house fire in Australia following reports of an explosion.