Your wrap of the world stories that broke overnight.
1. Australian aid worker Jocelyn Elliot has vowed to continue with her medical charity in Burkina Faso. She was freed by al-Qaeda-linked militants after three weeks of captivity. Her doctor husband Ken is still a hostage. "I really hope to be with my husband soon so that we can go to Djibo and continue (our work) there," she told journalists.
2. Rescuers have pulled out an 8-year-old girl Lin Su Chin and her aunt Chen Mei Jih from the rubble in Tainan more than 60 hours after an apartment block collapsed there. The official toll is up to 38.
3. As the presidential candidates enter the nervous final 24 hours before the New Hampshire primary, former President Bill Clinton has been making the case for his wife Hillary against her challenger Bernie Sanders. He tore into Sanders' online supporters - known as 'Bernie bros' - for trolling attacks and argued that realism and incrementalism had a better chance of achieving change than Sanders' 'revolution'.
4. A UN human rights investigation says the Syrian Government has carried out a state policy of extermination against thousands of detainees. The study says detainees have been tortured, some have been beaten to death and others have died from lack of food and water and medical care. It says both regime loyalists and opposing forces have committed possible war crimes.