A member of Somalia's new parliament is gunned down in an attack outside a mosque in the capital Mogadishu.

Nigeria's largest carrier Arik Air says it will resume domestic flights on Sunday after settling a dispute with aviation officials.

A Pakistani government minister who offered a $100,000 reward for the death of the maker of an anti-Islamic film is condemned by the prime minister's spokesman.

Polls are due to open in the former Soviet state of Belarus for a parliamentary election being boycotted by the two main opposition parties.

A powerful militia in eastern Libya announces it will disband, hours after police and protesters rout militias from the nearby city of Benghazi.

Pressure group Human Rights Watch demands that Peru's president rein in police after a protester is killed during a demonstration against a gold mine.

Swiss voters are to vote on a proposed total ban smoking in enclosed public places, with opinion polls showing the country divided on the issue.

Police in the Italian city of Turin arrest a jobless man who posed as an airline pilot, tricking his way into riding in the cockpit of at least one jet.