Islamic State militants free around 350, mainly elderly, members of the Yazidi religious community in northern Iraq.

An US Congressional delegation arrives in Cuba for the first such visit since the two countries agreed to begin restoring relations.

Eurotunnel car and freight services resume through the Channel Tunnel after a fire closed it for most of Saturday, with passenger trains due to start later.

Huge crowds have gathered to see Pope Francis hold an outdoor Mass in the Philippine city of Manila.

Australian golfer Robert Allenby is recovering after apparently being kidnapped from a Hawaii bar then robbed and beaten.

There is no link between several people arrested in Greece and a foiled plot by an Islamist cell in Belgium, officials in Brussels say.

Cherif Kouachi, the second gunman who attacked French magazine Charlie Hebdo, is buried amid tight security in an unmarked grave in a Paris suburb.

A North Korean prison camp escapee, now a high-profile human rights campaigner, apologises for inaccuracies in his story and says he may end his work.