A car bomb targeting a Shia religious procession in the north of Yemen kills 15 people, reports say.

African Union peacekeepers in Somalia apologise for the deaths of two civilians, killed after troops opened fire on a group of people near Mogadishu airport.

Police in Egypt clash with Coptic Christians over the construction of a new church, with reports saying one protester was killed.

Rescuers trying to reach 29 men trapped in a New Zealand coal mine find high gas levels and little oxygen near where the group is believed to be.

Mexican police arrest a man in connection with the death of a Canadian businessman whose corpse was found in a car boot in a Mexican town.

The Irish Republic agrees an 85bn euro bail-out according to an Irish state media report called 'premature' by the finance ministry.

North Korea's shelling of a South Korean island draws condemnation and calls for calm from the UN, the US and other world powers.

A prominent Brazilian fertility doctor is jailed for sexually assaulting 39 patients at his reproductive health clinic in Sao Paulo.