BRAZIL: An apartment building condemned for more than a decade but used by homeless people collapsed in Recife’s Paulista suburb in Brazil's north-eastern state of Pernambuco on Friday, killing 14 people including six children, firefighters reported on Saturday.

The collapse in Paulista was the second such tragedy in less than three months in Pernambuco. A building disintegrated in April in neighbouring Olinda, causing at least five deaths.

CHINA: Nine people are missing in central China after a landslide sparked by heavy rains amid flooding and searing temperatures across much of the country, authorities said today.

Five people were rescued from under the rubble at a highway construction site in the central province of Hubei, where the accident occurred on Saturday. Crews were still excavating in the hope of finding more survivors.

MEXICO: The Mexican national newspaper La Jornada said on Saturday that its staff reporter in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit has been found dead.

The body of journalist Luis Martin Sanchez Iniguez was found on the outskirts of the state capital, Tepic, La Jornada reported.

Mr Sanchez Iniguez had been missing since Wednesday and an appeal had been made to find him, the Nayarit state prosecutors' office said. 

SYRIA: The Syrian Information Ministry said on Saturday that they had cancelled the BBC’s media accreditation, accusing the broadcaster of bias and fake news in its coverage of the war-torn country.

The announcement came days after BBC Arabic released an investigative documentary about the illicit drug trade in Syria, where they highlighted links between the estimated multibillion-dollar industry and the Syrian army as well as members of President Bashar Assad’s family.