Opposition protestors in Thailand gather in the capital Bangkok to try to shut down the city centre in a bid to bring down the government.

African tigerfish have been filmed catching swallows in flight by scientists.

An Afghan girl tells the BBC how her family ordered her to wear a suicide vest and attack a police checkpoint in Helmand province.

A group of vigilantes clashes with a notorious drug cartel before seizing the town of Nueva Italia in western Mexico.

A man who ate another man's flesh in the Central African Republic tells the BBC he did so as revenge for the murders of family members.

A state memorial service for Israel's former PM Ariel Sharon, who died on Saturday aged 85, begins amid heavy security in Jerusalem.

India marks three years since its last case of polio was reported, in a landmark seen as confirmation of one of its biggest public health successes.

Indonesia pushes through a hotly-contested ban on raw minerals exports after making last minute concessions for the country's two biggest miners.