Thousands gather outside government headquarters in central Hong Kong as Occupy Central launches a disobedience campaign seeking greater reform.

The SNP's Nicola Sturgeon pledges to work in good faith with the Smith commission, set up to boost Holyrood's powers in the wake of the independence 'No' vote.

The Prince of Wales is set to attend an event to honour police officers who were killed while on duty.

Syrian militant group al-Nusra Front denounces US-led air strikes as "a war against Islam", as the campaign against Islamic State continues.

George Osborne unveils an election pledge to remove housing benefit and jobseeker's allowance for young people out of work for longer than six months.

A court in Cuba sentences the president of a Canadian transport company to 15 years in jail and seizes assets worth $100m (£62m).

A civil disobedience pro-democracy movement aiming to paralyse parts of Hong Kong with a massive sit-in has issued its demands.

A police officer is shot - reportedly in the arm - in the strife-torn US town of Ferguson, Missouri, but the officer's condition is unclear.