The International Monetary Fund expresses confidence in its leader Christine Lagarde, despite her being formally investigated for negligence in France.

Rescue workers in Nicaragua are trying to reach at least 24 workers trapped by a cave-in at a gold mine in the north of the country.

Housing experts are calling for minimum standards in the private rental market to prevent landlords from exploiting vulnerable tenants.

Italian PM Matteo Renzi announces measures to quicken the pace of the country's notoriously slow justice system to help the struggling economy.

Some 230 members of an Orthodox Jewish group begin leaving a village in western Guatemala after a bitter row with the local indigenous community.

Members of the troubled Co-operative Group are meeting later for a final vote on reforming how the business is run.

EU leaders are to meet in Brussels to consider how to respond to Russia following accusations that its troops are fighting inside Ukraine.

Military units in Lesotho have seized the police headquarters in a possible coup attempt, officials in the southern African mountain kingdom say.