Thousands of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo attend the state funeral of rumba star Tabu Ley Rochereau in the capital, Kinshasa.

The mayor of the Colombian capital, Bogota, is sacked by the country's prosecutor general's office and banned from politics for 15 years.

Sacred artefacts from the Hopi native American tribe go under the hammer at a Paris auction, despite US objections.

A court in Somalia gives a suspended jail term to a 19-year-old woman who alleged she was raped, and fines the journalist who reported her story.

Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority sign a water co-operation pact aimed at one day replenishing the rapidly drying Dead Sea.

The United Nations says nuclear inspectors will visit Libya to assess its uranium stockpiles, amid concerns about fragile security in the country.

The US military is to help fly African Union peacekeeping troops from Burundi into the Central African Republic, officials say.

US and British spies infiltrated online fantasy games in an effort to identify terrorist threats, according to media reports.