A loud explosion goes off in the centre of north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri - a stronghold of the Islamist Boko Haram group.

Australia ends a month-long suspension on live-cattle exports to Indonesia, put in place after video footage appeared to show cruel treatment of animals.

A woman who tried to smuggle her husband out of Mexico's prison in a suitcase is caught by guards, it has emerged.

The head of a major New Zealand employers' group is fired after causing public outrage by linking women's productivity to menstruation.

MPs in Germany are to debate secret plans to sell Saudi Arabia 200 tanks despite a policy of not selling arms to repressive states.

Canadian troops begin to return home from Afghanistan as their mission ends nine years after they were first deployed.

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera proposes the creation of a $4bn (£2.5bn) fund to help relieve student debt and improve education.

New rules aimed at reducing the price gap between using a mobile phone at home and elsewhere in the EU have been proposed.