Workers at the Spanish airline Iberia have begun a five-day strike in protest at planned job cuts and salary reductions.

Talks are due to resume in Tunisia on the creation of a technocratic government, despite opposition from the governing Islamic party Ennahda.

French meat processing firm Spanghero will be allowed to produce certain types of meat as the government partially rescinds its licence suspension.

Thirteen people are wounded in clashes between rival mine unions in South Africa, after security guards fire rubber bullets at the mob.

The owner of basketball team the Los Angeles Lakers dies at the age of 80, his assistant says.

The UK's national synchrotron facility - the Diamond Light Source near Oxford - is to become a world centre for studying the structure of viruses and bacteria that cause serious disease.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announces his return home from Cuba, where he had been receiving treatment for cancer since the end of 2012.

The birth of a rare giant armadillo has been recorded for the first time in Brazil.