Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu accuses UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of "encouraging terror" after remarks on a recent wave of violence.

Police in Senegal detain 900 people in a security operation following Islamist attacks in Burkina Faso and Mali.

A rock slide kills one person and injures another at a site for nuclear waste in north-eastern France, emergency officials say.

Cleveland police fire six police officers who shot more than 100 rounds into car, killing an unarmed black couple in 2012.

One person dies during an operation by US police to arrest the leader of an armed occupation at a wildlife refuge in Oregon.

Taiwan's outgoing President Ma Ying-jeou is to visit an island in the South China Sea which is claimed by China and other neighbours.

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani arrives in France on Wednesday for the second leg of his state visit to Europe, after three days in Italy.

Donald Trump says he will boycott the final Republican presidential debate before the Iowa caucuses and hold his own event instead.