Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is now free of cancer after successful chemotherapy treatment in Brazil, his doctors say.

Clashes erupt in Senegal's capital Dakar, after the top court rules that President Abdoulaye Wade can run for a third term in next month's poll.

A man convicted of murdering a woman and her two daughters in a 2007 home invasion denies responsibility, as a judge sentences him to die.

Microscopic plastic debris from washing clothes is accumulating in the marine environment and could be entering the food chain, a study warns.

South Sudan says it will complete its threatened shutdown of oil production on Saturday after no deal was reached with Sudan over pipeline use.

Co-hosts Gabon snatch an incredible late winner to put them through to the quarter-finals and send Morocco out.

Protesters in Austria marking Holocaust Remembrance Day condemn organisers of a ball, which is expected to be attended by far-right leaders.

The Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, is in Britain to meet David Cameron following France's decision to speed up the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan.