Two senior Honduran officials tasked with purging the police of corrupt officers have resigned after congress said they had made no progress.

An Ethiopian Airlines 787 Dreamliner is due to take off from Addis Ababa on Saturday morning, the first commercial flight by the Boeing aircraft since all 787s were grounded in January.

The Duke of Edinburgh has arrived in Toronto on a brief visit to Canada where he will present a regimental flag.

The Royal Family and UK PM Cameron gave US President Obama a china tea set, a tapestry and a dog toy in 2011, the US state department reports.

Boko Haram militants were paid more than $3m (£2m) before freeing seven French hostages, a confidential Nigerian government report says.

Bolivian bishops say allegations by the president that they colluded in the theft of precious religious art are "incredibly hurtful".

Voters in Iceland are due to go to the polls in parliament elections, which are expected to oust the ruling centre-left coalition.

Two owners of garment factories in the building that collapsed in Bangladesh are arrested, as 15 more people are rescued from the rubble.