Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi is to stand trial on charges including conspiring with foreign organisations to commit terrorist acts.
Ukraine's decision to suspend a deal on closer EU ties and sign a Russian aid agreement instead has helped avoid bankruptcy, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has told ministers in Kiev.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denounced a corruption inquiry as a "dirty operation" against his government.
Russia has given Ukraine a discount of almost a third on Russian gas and said it would buy billions of dollars' worth of Ukrainian government bonds.
Italy has launched an inquiry into the treatment of migrants at a reception centre on the island of Lampedusa.
South Africa's deputy disability minister says the government is investigating how a man who faked sign language at the Mandela memorial was given security clearance.
Pope Francis has been named Person of the Year by Time magazine.
One of the strongest typhoons ever to hit land has slammed the Philippines, forcing millions to take shelter.
Egypt's ousted leader Mohammed Morsi has gone on trial in Cairo, telling the judge the case is illegitimate as he remains president.
Hundreds of protesters in Kenya have handed over a petition to police demanding justice for a teenager who was gang-raped.
International chemical weapons inspectors say "security reasons" have prevented them from visiting two sites disclosed by the Syrian government.
EU leaders meeting in Brussels said distrust of the US over spying could harm the fight against terrorism.
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has said it is "really not on" for friends to spy on each other, referring to alleged US snooping on her phone calls.
The Vatican has suspended a senior German Church leader dubbed the "bishop of bling" by the media over his alleged lavish spending.
Syria's moderate opposition should "commit itself fully" to planned peace talks, the UK and US have said.
Plans to decontaminate six towns and villages close to Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant have to be delayed by up to three more years, officials say.
Kenya is embarking on an ambitious plan to microchip every rhino in the country in a drive to combat a surge of poaching, say wildlife officials.
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The head of the body tasked with destroying Syria's chemical weapons says fighting is preventing access to sites through some rebel-held areas.
House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said they would do so in exchange for negotiations with the White House to end a government shutdown that took effect on 1 October.
Clashes have erupted between supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi, opponents and security forces in the capital, Cairo, and Alexandria.
The US government has begun a partial shutdown after the two houses of Congress failed to agree a new budget.
A series of car bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has killed at least 47 people and injured many more, officials say.
Kenyan security forces say they are attempting to clear the Westgate shopping complex in Nairobi in order to bring to an end the three-day siege.
Syria has begun sending details of its chemical weapons as part of a US-Russia brokered deal to make them safe, the chemical arms watchdog has said.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has called off a state visit to Washington next month in a row over allegations of US espionage.
South Korean troops have shot dead a man trying to swim across a border river into the North, officials say.
At least 12 people have been killed and at least four injured in a shooting at a naval installation in Washington DC.
In the audio message, Ayman al-Zawahiri talks of the need for small-scale attacks - and even a boycott - to damage the US economy.
Scientists say the probe's instruments indicate it has moved beyond the bubble of hot gas from our Sun and is now moving in the space between the stars.
The US has warned that a Russian plan on Syrian chemical weapons must not be an excuse for "delays and avoidance".
Russia has asked Syria to put its chemical weapons stockpiles under international control and then have them destroyed, in an attempt to avoid US military strikes.
The UK has fresh evidence of the use of chemical weapons in Damascus, David Cameron has told the BBC as he arrives in Russia for the G20 summit.
A US Senate panel has approved the use of military force in Syria, in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack.
Ariel Castro, who kept women captive at his home in Cleveland, Ohio, has died after being found hanging in his cell.
President Barack Obama has won backing from key US political figures on his plans for a military strike on Syria.
France says the suspected chemical attack near Damascus last month "could not have been ordered and carried out by anyone but the Syrian government".
Leading Muslim Brotherhood figure Mohammed al-Beltagi has been arrested, according to Egyptian officials.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has condemned the killing of 12 civilians in two separate attacks in Afghanistan.
Firefighters are slowly making progress against a sprawling wildfire that is now 20% contained in and around California's Yosemite National Park.
American forces are "ready" to launch strikes on Syria if President Barack Obama chooses to order an attack, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel says.
Unidentified snipers have opened fire on a convoy of UN experts investigating suspected chemical weapons attacks in Syria's capital, the UN has said.
Firefighters in California are struggling to gain control of a huge wildfire which has reached the edge of Yosemite National Park.
At least 42 people have been killed and more than 400 injured by two huge blasts in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli, health officials say.