Turkish police arrest nine people after a female US tourist who disappeared 10 days ago is found dead in Istanbul, reports say.

Forensic workers in Mexico hand over the bodies of the victims of Thursday's blast at Pemex headquarters to their relatives for burial.

Protests break out in Spanish cities after Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy vowed not to resign over "false claims" that he received secret payments.

Islamist militants release two Filipino hostages, believed to have been kidnapped last June while working for Jordanian TV, in the southern Philippines.

UK PM David Cameron will hold talks with the Afghan and Pakistani presidents to discuss regional co-operation ahead of Nato's Afghan withdrawal in 2014.

At least 16 people are killed as a police headquarters in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk is attacked by a suicide bomber and gunmen, police say.

The inventor of the classic toy Etch A Sketch, former electrical technician Andre Cassagnes, dies in France at the age of 86.

The Bolshoi Ballet's artistic director Sergei Filin tells the BBC he is "absolutely certain" he knows who is behind last month's acid attack on him.