North Korea Responds to Sanctions With Missile

North Korea has fired a missile over northern Japan, the South Korean and Japanese governments say. The missile flew over Japan's Hokkaido island before landing in the Pacific Ocean.

Tensions are rising in Iraq following the Government's decision on Thursday to sack the governor of oil-rich Kirkuk, Najm Eddine Karim, over his decision to vote in a Kurdish independence referendum.

It’s one month since torrential rainfall caused devastating floods and mudslides around Sierra Leone's capital city, Freetown. Almost 500 people died. How is the city recovering and planning to prevent such a disaster in the future.