The French far-right's Jean-Marie Le Pen is expelled from the National Front he founded, after a feud with daughter and party leader Marine.

The proportion of people with dementia is levelling-off in parts of Western Europe - and even falling in the UK - according to a report by University of Cambridge scientists.

Government plans to extend tax breaks for the British film industry, in a bid to attract more blockbusters to be filmed in the UK, are approved by the EU.

Australia's Maggie Kirkpatrick, star of the TV drama Prisoner, is sentenced to community service after being found guilty of sexually abusing a teenager.

Police in Denmark are hunting for two thieves who stole a small bust by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin from a museum in Copenhagen.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered his frontline troops to be on a war footing, state media says, as tensions rise with the South.

The Peruvian Congress approves legislation allowing the country's air force to shoot down planes suspected of carrying illegal drugs.

Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson raises the prospect of Sinn Féin being excluded from the Stormont executive after police said members of the Provisional IRA were involved in a Belfast murder.