Nigeria become the first African team to qualify for the 2014 World Cup after beating Ethiopia 2-0 for a 4-1 aggregate win.

Ivory Coast qualify for their third World Cup in a row after drawing 1-1 with Senegal in a tense African play-off in Casablanca.

Tens of thousands of people protest in Italy's southern city of Naples against illegal dumping of toxic waste blamed on the local mafia, the Camorra.

Voters in Kosovo's ethnic Serb northern part of Mitrovica are being asked to cast their ballots again, two weeks after elections ended in chaos.

Brazil says the rate of deforestation in the Amazon increased by 28% between August 2012 and last July, after four years of steady decline.

Venezuela's National Assembly paves the way to enabling President Nicolas Maduro to rule by special decree for a period of 12 months.

Prince Charles puts his best foot forward, tackling the Hokey Cokey on a trip to a school for disabled children in Sri Lanka.

Nine axe-wielding attackers and two policemen are killed in clashes at a police station in China's volatile Xinjiang province, state media say.