A WhatsApp channel created to support Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's re-election campaign is being credited by allies with helping deliver one of the most unlikely comebacks in recent Brazilian politics.
Part of Antarctica has been named after former BBC science correspondent Jonathan Amos.
A US Marine has been indicted on suspicion of murdering and robbing a woman in Japan earlier this month in a case that has triggered protests, Japanese media reports.
Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won a fourth term in office in a dramatic comeback over his right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro.
US singer Chris Brown has avoided jail after striking a man twice in the head with a glass tequila bottle in a London nightclub.
Algeria is to send troops to Niger in its first foreign deployment since sending forces to Egypt during the Arab-Israeli war in 1973.
On the face of it, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has done the impossible one more time - within three weeks he overturned defeat in first-round voting to gain re-election as Brazil's president.
Immigration has always been central to Donald Trump's message.
The October full Moon lit up skies around the world this weekend.
On Saturday, 31 October the Olympic rings will be raised for an event hosted on African soil for the first time as Senegal stages the Youth Olympic Games.
Ugandans returning from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo will be quarantined for 21 days, the health ministry has said, as the country tightens restrictions to contain the spread of Ebola virus.
In the Chinese capital a major political gathering is underway, with a closed-door meeting of senior figures that could shape the look of the ruling Communist Party in the years to come.
