The junior partner in Morocco's Islamist-led government, the secular centre-right Istiqlal party, quits amid a dispute over subsidy cuts.

Italy's highest court will hear Silvio Berlusconi's tax fraud appeal on 30 July - which could prevent the statute of limitations from expiring on one charge.

Russia says it has evidence showing a projectile that hit a northern Syrian village contained the nerve agent sarin and was most likely fired by rebels.

Canadian authorities launch a criminal inquiry into the derailment of an oil train that killed at least 15 people in a small Quebec town on Saturday.

Nine members of New York's Bonanno family are accused of "old-school mob activity" including gambling, loan sharking, extortion and drugs.

The main liberal opposition coalition in Egypt rejects interim leader Adly Mansour's decree, which sets a new poll timetable to try to stop the unrest.

Italian judge orders 49 suspected Latin American gang members to stand trial for allegedly using dogs to smuggle cocaine into the country.

Illinois becomes the last state in the US to allow residents to carry concealed handguns, after legislators dismissed objections from the governor.