Nigerian police have arrested eight members of the armed group Boko Haram who were involved in the 2014 abduction of more than 276 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok, an official said.
As he delivered the Nelson Mandela annual lecture on Tuesday night in Johannesburg, Barack Obama delivered a strong rebuke to Donald Trump, without once naming the sitting president.
More than 30 people were taken to hospital after a Ryanair flight lost cabin pressure and descended 26,000ft in just seven minutes, according to officials.
Cave divers in Thailand have resumed the high-risk operation to extract the remaining eight boys and their football coach from a vast flooded cave system, the head of the mission has said.
At least 100 people are thought to have died after record rainfall caused flooding and landslides in western Japan, a government spokesman says.
More than 50 others are believed to be missing, the Japan Times reported.
Since Thursday, parts of western Japan have received three times the usual rainfall for the whole of July. Two million people have been ordered to evacuate as rivers burst their banks.
"We've never experienced this kind of rain before," a weather official said.
Rescuers restarted their search through the mud for any survivors or the bodies of those killed on Monday morning.
An official in Okayama prefecture told AFP news agency that water levels were gradually receding and that emergency teams may be able to access the worst-hit areas on foot.
Most of the deaths have occurred in Hiroshima prefecture.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Sunday that rescuers were "working against time".
"There are still many people missing and others in need of help," he told reporters.
In the town of Motoyama, on Shikoku island, 583mm (23in) of rain fell between Friday morning and Saturday morning.
Further rain warnings are in effect, with more than 250mm predicted to fall in some areas by Monday.
Four Ugandan soldiers and three civilians were killed Thursday in clashes on Lake Edward that lies between the two countries, a senior official in the Democratic Republic of Congo said.