A former US government employee is accused of recruiting US citizens in sensitive national security posts to spy for Cuba.

A suspected military leader of the Basque separatist group Eta is sentenced to life in jail for the 2007 murder of two policemen in France.

A buyer pays 13,720 euros for a lock of hair belonging to the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph in an auction in Vienna.

Four Chilean sect members are arrested over claims they burnt a newborn baby to death on a bonfire as part of a ritual.

China agrees to buy 60 planes from European firm Airbus, in a deal worth $8bn (£5.2bn) at list prices.

North Korea has not responded to South Korea's calls for talks on resuming operations at the jointly-run Kaesong Industrial Complex, officials say.

Police are urging people from a small town in Belgium to return tens of thousands of euros in cash that were thrown out of a speeding car by thieves attempting to make a getaway.

There is "limited but growing" evidence that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons, says British Prime Minister David Cameron.