Heavy snowfall creates a huge traffic jam on a major motorway in Russia, trapping thousands of vehicles for days.

Suspected Islamist fighters kill 10 Christians in an overnight machete and gun attack during a bloody weekend in north-eastern Nigeria's Borno state.

Judges in Egypt refuse to oversee a 15 December vote on the country's new draft constitution, as the opposition calls mass protests for Tuesday.

At least nine people are now known to have died after a major tunnel collapsed in Japan, amid fears the death toll may rise further.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is to meet Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss the Syria conflict, which has strained bilateral relations.

The Catholic diocese of Milan sets up an exorcism hotline and doubles the number of specially trained priests to meet what it says is increasing demand.

A UN agency, hosting a meeting of 193 government regulators in Dubai, tries to calm fears that they could threaten the freedom of the internet.

Israeli settlement plans in a strategically sensitive area near East Jerusalem would deal "an almost fatal blow" to peace hopes, UN head Ban Ki-moon warns.