The US Federal Trade Commission gives Facebook's takeover bid for photo-sharing network Instagram the go-ahead.

South Africa's cabinet draws criticism from Israel for approving the placing of "Occupied Territories" labels on goods made in Israeli settlements.

Memorial services take place across South Africa for the 34 miners killed during clashes with police at Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine.

Mexican authorities say they are making progress in negotiations with a religious sect in Michoacan state which is preventing children from going to school.

German and French leaders meet in Berlin to consider Greece's plea to be given more time to make the tough cuts needed for its debt bailout.

The UK should give more priority to helping the poorest countries collect their taxes as part of its overseas development strategy, MPs say.

Four foreign oil workers, kidnapped off Nigeria's coast earlier this month, are released - their employer's refusing to say whether a ransom was paid.

A Nepali man who was bitten by a cobra in his rice paddy field kills the snake by repeatedly biting it back.