A new rocket launches from the US eastern seaboard to prove its readiness to help service the International Space Station (ISS).

At least 45,000 people attend the last big rally against same-sex marriage and adoption in Paris before the bill is expected to become law.

The BBC obtains police video showing officers standing by while Buddhist rioters attacked minority Muslims in the flashpoint town of Meiktila.

The Colorado Party's Horacio Cartes is elected Paraguay's president in a poll seen as key to restoring the country's democratic credentials.

UK ministers travel to Latin American to try to attract potential students to come and study in its universities.

Clashes between the military and Islamist militants in north Nigeria are reported to have killed at least 185 civilians and destroyed 2,000 homes.

US prosecutors prepare charges against the surviving Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who remains injured in hospital.

South Korea's foreign minister cancels a visit to Tokyo after top-level Japanese ministers pay their respects at a controversial war-linked shrine.