Ivory Coast's former youth minister and ally of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo, Charles Ble Goude, is charged with war crimes and murder.

The Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem is elected the new head of the Eurogroup, replacing the outgoing Jean-Claude Juncker.

Global unemployment rose by 4 million in 2012 to 197 million and is expected to grow further in the coming years, the UN labour agency warns.

Israelis are preparing to go to the polls in a general election which looks set to return Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to office.

Video footage of Adelie penguin foraging habits reveal intimate details of the birds' efficient hunting style, say Japanese scientists.

Hugo Chavez is joking and laughing again, a minister says, the latest positive comments after the Venezuelan president's cancer surgery.

A Canadian man opens fire in a Philippine court, killing two people and wounding another, reports say.

Liberia's ex-President Charles Taylor is set to begin his appeal at a UN-backed court in The Hague against a 50-year war crimes sentence.