The Egyptian president says police officers guilty of human rights abuses will face tougher action after protests over the shooting of a taxi driver.

Militants from the Islamic State group killed in a US air strike in Libya posed a threat to US and Western interests, the Pentagon says.

The billionaire owner of Moscow's only fully private airport is placed under house arrest by a Russian court over alleged security lapses before suicide bomb.

The Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco, best known for his 1980s novel The Name of the Rose, dies at the age of 84.

Hundreds of migrants living in part of a camp in the French port of Calais known as the Jungle are ordered to leave by Tuesday or face eviction.

Brazilian Senator Delcidio do Amaral, accused of obstructing a major corruption investigation, leaves prison after a judge orders his release.

US President Barack Obama pays tribute to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia who died last week, throwing the court into uncertainty.

President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia indicates for the first time that peace talks with the Farc rebels will not go beyond a 23 March deadline.