Haitian President Michel Martelly condemns the alleged assault of a Haitian man by Uruguayan peacekeepers, calling it "collective rape".

In New Zealand ahead of the Rugby World Cup, flash mobs are performing the national team's famous Haka all over the country.

Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra - seen by many as the heir to Luciano Pavarotti - dies in Sicily from road accident injuries, aged 43.

Italy's largest trade union federation calls a one-day general strike in protest against the government's latest austerity measures.

Asian stocks are mixed after European markets tumbled on Monday amid renewed fears that the region's debt crisis will spread.

A man with a suspicious backpack - possibly a bomb - is holding a child outside a court in a suburb of the Australian city of Sydney, local media say.

Juan Carlos Pinzon is sworn in as Colombia's new defence minister, with orders to give the "final blow" to the Farc rebels.

A heavily armed convoy of vehicles from Libya crosses the desert border into Niger, reports say, as Col Gaddafi's spokesman says he remains in Libya.