A man walks in on his own wake in eastern Brazil after hearing his family is mourning his death as a result of what turned out to be mistaken identification at a mortuary.

Witnesses in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, report huge explosions and a fire at the site of an arms factory.

Russia's lower house votes to widen the definition of high treason, in a move the opposition and rights activists say is another attempt to stifle dissent.

A hedge fund manager donates $100m (£63m) to the group that runs New York's Central Park, a sum more than twice the attraction's annual budget.

The US patent office has ruled a set of Apple patents invalid, throwing into question an earlier judgement.

German film director Werner Herzog is bringing DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little to the screen in a film adaptation of the 2003 Booker prize-winning novel.

A woman is killed in Panama as protests against new laws allowing the sale of land in Colon turn increasingly violent.

Tens of thousands take part in pro-government and opposition rallies in Budapest to mark Hungary's 1956 uprising against Soviet rule.