Provisional results give Kenya's Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta a narrow victory in the presidential election, but the official result is due later.

Venezuela's former vice-president Nicolas Maduro is sworn in as acting president hours after the state funeral of Hugo Chavez.

Voting is set to begin on the Mediterranean island of Malta with opinion polls suggesting a change of government after more than 15 years.

A court in Egypt is due to deliver verdicts in cases involving last year's deadly football riots, amid continuing protests and police strikes.

Canada's Supreme Court rules the government failed to hand out land grants properly to the Metis indigenous group 142 years ago.

At least nine people die as a suicide bomber attacks the Afghan defence ministry in Kabul, during a visit to the city by the new US Pentagon chief.

Rival football fans in Egypt protest angrily over sentences handed down over deadly riots at a match in Port Said in February 2012.

A group of 21 Filipino UN peacekeepers captured by rebels in Syria cross into Jordan after being released, officials confirm.