A group of Peruvian gas workers abducted six days ago by rebels has been freed after a military operation, the Peruvian government says.

The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic is being remembered at special events across the world, including in the ship's birthplace Belfast.

An advance team of UN monitors prepares to go to Syria within hours of a Security Council vote, with the ceasefire reportedly close to collapse.

Almost 400 prisoners have escaped from a Pakistani jail after it came under attack from heavily-armed militants, officials say.

North Korea's Kim Jong-un makes his first televised speech, as the country marks the centenary of the birth of its founder, Kim il-Sung.

Fresh clashes erupt in Syria as a vanguard of UN monitors prepares to arrive to oversee the nation's shaky ceasefire.

The Taliban carry out co-ordinated attacks on embassies, parliament and Nato's HQ in the capital Kabul, and elsewhere in Afghanistan.

Unconfirmed rumours on the internet about the death of Briton Neil Heywood in China suggest he was poisoned with potassium cyanide.