As Nigeria's Paralympians return from Rio victorious, BBC Sport's Oluwashina Okeleji asks what the faltering national football team could learn from them.

Early diagnosis of disease is literally a matter of life and death, so the race is on to produce cheaper, faster, lighter kits to help doctors and nurses in the field.

Two Italians have been kidnapped in Libya, the Italian foreign ministry says.

A knifeman who stabbed nine people at a Minnesota shopping centre is identified by his father as a 22-year-old student.

Police fire teargas in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to disperse protesters calling for President Joseph Kabila to step down.

Tributes are pouring in from across South Africa for kwaito musician Mduduzi "Mandoza" Tshabalala, who died after a year-long battle with cancer.

The 10 remaining fluent speakers of the Kenyan language Yaaku are trying to make sure that it is not lost forever.