A boat carrying Egyptian migrants thought to be on their way to Europe capsizes in the Mediterranean, with more than 30 feared dead.

Gambia says nine prisoners were executed on Sunday, as rights groups condemn plans to carry out all death penalties by next month.

Canadian police arrest the ex-boyfriend of a woman whose body parts were scattered around the Toronto area for her murder.

Miners in Italy barricade themselves and hundreds of kilos of explosives inside their pit to protest against a possible closure of the site.

At least 31 Chinese fishermen are missing after Typhoon Bolaven sinks two boats as it hits South Korea.

A fire at Venezuela's largest oil refinery caused by an explosion on Saturday spreads to a third tank, as the death toll rises to 48.

A ruling is expected in an Israeli court in the case of Rachel Corrie, the American activist crushed by an Israeli bulldozer in 2003.

American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh testifies in federal court that restrictions on group prayer for Muslim prisoners are "absurd".