Bulgarian security officials say they have seized 350,000 illegal ballot papers a day before parliamentary elections.

Hundreds of Cubans march against homophobia in the capital, Havana, led by the president's daughter, Mariela Castro.

The chancellor says the G7 group of industrialised nations have agreed there needs to be collective action to target tax evasion and avoidance.

Turkey warns it will take any necessary measure to protect itself after two car bombs exploded in a town on its border with Syria.

At least 27 miners die in an explosion at a colliery in China's south-west Sichuan province, the second such accident in 24 hours.

Taiwan gives the Philippines until Wednesday to apologise for the death of a fisherman whose vessel was fired on by the Philippines' coastguard.

Four Filipino UN peacekeepers abducted while patrolling between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights are released, officials say.

Syria says it was not behind two car bombs which claimed the lives of 46 people in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli on Saturday.