Italian PM Mario Monti says he plans to resign after Silvio Berlusconi's PDL party withdrew its support for the government.

The President of Pakistan visits schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai, shot by the Taliban in October, at the hospital in Birmingham where she is being treated.

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has annulled a decree that gave him expanded powers but a constitutional referendum will go ahead, officials say.

Voting is due to get under way in parliamentary elections in Romania, with Prime Minister Victor Ponta hoping to win a new term.

A US doctor who had been abducted by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan has been freed in a joint US and Afghan army operation, officials say.

An Austrian bus driver is praised for handing in almost 400,000 euros in cash - an elderly lady's life savings - found at the back of his bus.

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez says he will return to Cuba on Sunday, where he will undergo another operation for cancer.

Rare anti-Chinese protests take place in Vietnam, before being quickly dispersed by police, amid growing tensions over disputed territorial waters.