About 14,000 people have fled Ivory Coast to neighbouring Liberia following last month's disputed Ivorian presidential election, the UN says.

US financier Roy Neuberger, one of the world's leading modern art collectors, dies at the age of 107.

Amnesty International appeals to Iran to commute the death sentence of an Iranian Kurdish student who it says is expected to be executed on Sunday.

Venezuela's former President Carlos Andres Perez dies in Florida at the age of 88, reportedly of a heart attack.

Fresh secret US diplomatic cables released via Wikileaks allege governments have pressed the US drug agency to extend wiretapping.

South Korean and Chinese defence ministers are to meet in Beijing in February amid rising tension on the Korean peninsula, officials in Seoul say.

Turkey's foreign minister says his country wants to fix ties with Israel, whose troops killed nine people on a Turkish pro-Palestinian aid ship in May.

Aftershocks rattle the New Zealand city of Christchurch, damaging buildings and cutting power, months after a major earthquake.