Ukraine's ex-president Viktor Yanukovych tells the BBC he accepts some responsibility for the killings that led to his overthrow.

Eurozone leaders echo hopes that a deal to stop Greece defaulting on its debt can be struck within days, while cautioning that more work remains.

Venezuela's election body sets the date of 6 December for legislative polls, following weeks of pressure from the opposition.

Japan is to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa - one of the bloodiest episodes in the Pacific during World War Two.

Australia says it is trying to verify reports that two of its citizens who went to fight for Islamic State have been killed in Iraq.

Kurdish forces in northern Syria say they have captured a military base from IS north of the militants' self-declared capital of Raqqa.

Three men who used parachutes to jump from the top of One World Trade Center in New York are convicted of reckless endangerment.

The second of the European Union's Sentinel Earth-observing satellites launches on a mission that will allow scientists to map the performance of the world's crop harvests.