Exit polls suggest France's far-right National Front has failed to win a single region in key elections, despite leading in nearly half in the first round of voting.

Spanish police arrest a Colombian man accused of performing more than 100 forced abortions on women fighters with the Farc rebel group.

France's far-right National Front seeks to boost its gains in the second round of regional polls, battling against the Republicans and Socialists.

The climate deal reached in Paris is "the best chance we have to save the one planet we have", US President Barack Obama says.

Votes are being counted in Saudi Arabia's municipal elections, where women were allowed for the first time to cast their ballots.

At least 21 people have died in a fire at a mental health clinic in in the Voronezh region in western Russia, officials say.

A helicopter being used in an MTV reality show crashes into a reservoir in Argentina killing the pilot and a technician.

A Republican opinion poll puts Senator Ted Cruz far ahead of Donald Trump in Iowa, which is the first state to vote in the US primary season.