At least 25 people are killed as gunmen attack a prison, a police station, a bank and a bar in an eastern Nigerian town, police say.

Bodybuilding guru Joe Weider, the man who launched Arnold Schwarzenegger's Hollywood career, dies aged 93.

Police experts on environments contaminated with chemical, biological and nuclear material are searching the house of dead tycoon Boris Berezovsky.

Cyprus has only "hard choices" left and must agree terms for a crucial bailout on Sunday, the EU's economic affairs chief Olli Rehn says.

Pope Francis is to begin the Catholic Church's most important liturgical season with a Palm Sunday Mass attended by thousands of pilgrims in St Peter's Square.

Islamist rebels attack Gao in northern Mali, officials say, and are only repelled after a firefight lasting several hours.

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf leaves Dubai on a plane to Karachi, ending his self-imposed exile and defying death threats.

Plans to tackle tuberculosis are failing and a new visionary approach is needed, according to an international group of doctors and scientists.