Europe's unmanned space freighter launches from French Guiana on a mission to resupply the International Space Station.

A large-scale and little-seen Andy Warhol self-portrait sells at Christie's in London for nearly £10.8m.

Officials in Brazil say they have arrested 19 police officers on suspicion of belonging to a vigilante group accused of killing dozens of people over the past decade.

The largest left-wing rebel group in Colombia, the Farc, release two more hostages, bringing the total in recent days to six.

The US Senate votes to extend for 90 days controversial surveillance powers granted by the Patriot Act law, put in place after the 9/11 attacks.

One of Algeria's founding fathers, 84-year-old Abdelhamid Mehri, says the country's president is no longer capable of addressing the nation's challenges.

Police move into a square in Bahrain's capital, Manama, using tear gas against crowds to clear protesters camped there, with at least two people reported dead.

Germany's defence minister denies newspaper allegations that he committed plagiarism in his 2006 PhD thesis, calling the claims "absurd".