Jeanine Áñez is backed by the Constitutional Court, but accused of a coup by ex-leader Morales.

For several weeks, journalists and NGOs have been drawing attention to a campaign of terror against the LGBT community in Chechnya, a Muslim-majority region of Russia in the Caucasus. Detentions, torture and even murders have been reported - but the authorities deny the claims. Our correspondent Elena Volochine managed to talk to some of the victims, who gave chilling accounts of persecution.

Brazil's new interim president, Michel Temer, was an embassy informant for US intelligence, WikiLeaks has revealed. According to the whistleblowing website, Temer communicated with the US embassy in Brazil via telegram, and such content would be classified as "sensitive" and "for official use only." Two cables were released, dated January 11, 2006 and June 21, 2006.

Today, the CDC released some of the first evidence of a connection between Zika and microcephaly in Americans who contracted the virus while they were traveling. By Katie M. Palmer .

Three to four million people could be infected with Zika virus in the Americas this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) predicts. Most will not develop symptoms, but the virus, spread by mosquitoes, has been linked to brain defects in babies. Meanwhile, the US says it hopes to begin human vaccine trials by the end of 2016. The head of the International Olympic Committee says steps are being taken to protect the Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel alert late Friday that advises pregnant women to avoid traveling to Brazil and about a dozen countries in the Americas where a mosquito-borne virus has been linked to brain damage in babies. Local transmission of the Zika virus has been found in 16 countries and territories: Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico...

Three men were cleared on Wednesday of setting a 1980 fire in Park Slope, Brooklyn, that caused the death of a mother and her five children, after the sole eyewitness was deemed unreliable and new understanding of the evidence fires leave behind was applied. Two of the men had each spent almost 33 years in prison on arson and murder charges, the longest time served by any defendant whose conviction has been vacated under Ken Thompson...

At least 89 people were killed at a restaurant in central India on Saturday when a cooking gas cylinder exploded and triggered a second blast of mine detonators stored illegally nearby, police said. The restaurant, located next to the main bus station in the town of Petlawad in Madhya Pradesh state, was crowded with people having breakfast when the blasts occurred. The building where the restaurant was located and an adjacent building were destroyed in the explosions...

The self-styled "Front Page of the internet" suffers a setback as it's unique "IAMA" subreddit is temporarily closed. The subreddit was a host for such memorable IAMA's as President Obama, talk show hosts, comedians, actors and statesmen as Reddit employee, Victoria, has unexpectedly been sacked.