Wikileaks' Julian Assange says being held on remand in the UK has only increased his resolve to carry on publishing secret documents.

EU foreign ministers say they will recognise a Palestinian state "when appropriate", following a call from Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.

Aid groups have called for a concerted effort to prevent a repeat of what have become known as "Christmas massacres" by Lord's Resistance Army rebels in central African countries.

Veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke, the US envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, dies following surgery to repair a tear in his aorta.

Search crews from New Zealand call off the hunt for 17 missing fishermen from a South Korean trawler that sank in the Southern Ocean.

Amnesty International condemns Libya and the EU over their co-operation to try to prevent African migrants crossing from North Africa to Europe.

Sea lice carried by farmed salmon are not responsible for a sharp decline in the wild population of a species of Pacific salmon, a report suggests.

American fears that the UK was struggling to cope with homegrown extremism are revealed in new Wikileaks cables.