Eleven people have been killed in a gun and machete attack in eastern Nigeria targeting the deputy governor of Adamawa state, police say.

Nepal's women's commission condemns an attack on an elderly woman accused of witchcraft, who was stripped, beaten and made to eat excrement.

The US Pentagon has delayed an intercontinental ballistic missile test to avoid needlessly provoking North Korea, defence officials say.

The Gulf state of Qatar is hosting a two-day conference on development and reconstruction in Sudan's Darfur region.

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Turkey, for talks expected to cover relations with Israel and the conflict in Syria.

More than 40 of Andy Warhol's paintings and prints are to go on display in Scotland later this year.

The acting president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, puts a curse on citizens who do not vote for him in next week's election.

China is to begin running tourist cruises to a chain of disputed South China Sea islands by May, in what is being seen as a bid to demonstrate its sovereignty.