A Cuban government opponent dies several days after being arrested and allegedly beaten by police, dissidents say.

A senior UN official in Ivory Coast tells the BBC new mass graves with the remains of more than 50 male victims have been found in an Abidjan suburb.

John Walker, one of the founders of 1960s group The Walker Brothers, has died at the age of 67 in California, his spokeswoman says.

The Italian army is sent back to Naples, to help the southern city deal with its continuing rubbish crisis.

Syrian troops expand their crackdown on protests and enter several key cities, with shelling, arrests and deaths reported in Homs.

The Australian government moved to tackle a sharp increase in the rate of suicide in some Aboriginal communities.

A protest by thousands of farmers against alleged forced acquisition of land spreads to parts of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Poor foreign language skills among the British workforce are leaving the UK under-represented in EU institutions, a European official has said.