A delegation mediating in Burkina Faso says there has been a breakthrough towards ending a coup that has sparked deadly violence.

Voting is due to begin in Greece's general election with opinion polls indicating a tight race between the left-wing Syriza party and conservative New Democracy.

The novelist Jackie Collins has died of breast cancer in Los Angeles at the age of 77, her family says.

A driver involved in a high-speed chase in California was struck by gunfire from a police helicopter, officials have confirmed.

Nepal is due to formally adopt its new constitution, drawn up after years of political wrangling.

A group of 75 US-backed rebels has crossed into northern Syria from Turkey to fight jihadists there, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.

Yemen's Houthi rebels release six foreign hostages including three Americans, two Saudis and a Briton, Yemeni officials say.

At least 13 migrants trying to reach Greece drown off the coast of Turkey as their dinghy and a ferry collide, the Turkish coastguard says.