Secretary-general of the party of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo is reportedly arrested, the third party official to be held in recent days.

US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney accuses his Democratic rival Barack Obama of running a campaign built on "anger and divisiveness".

A boat carrying more than 150 illegal Haitian migrants capsizes off the Bahamas, with most on board surviving, but more than a dozen feared drowned.

Top members of South Africa's ruling ANC party are to discuss the political fallout following recent police shootings of strikers at the Marikana mine.

Shares in Samsung see their worst fall in almost four years, after a jury in the US finds it copied designs from rival Apple.

The Nigerian government says it has started informal talks with Boko Haram to try to end deadly attacks by the militant Islamist group.

A powerful typhoon heads towards South Korea after lashing the Japanese island of Okinawa, causing power cuts and paralysing transport.

Seventeen civilians are beheaded in Afghanistan, local officials say, with 10 Afghan soldiers killed in a separate incident.