A group of friends snorkelling off the coast of California got closer then they expected to a pair of feeding humpback whales.

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir sacks his entire cabinet, in an apparent power struggle with the vice president.

Solomon Islands marks a decade of the Australian-led peacekeeping mission which tackled ethnic unrest and lawlessness, as troops leave.

Pope Francis arrives at a shrine in the state of Sao Paulo to hold his first Mass of his trip to Latin America.

At least four people have been killed and more than 30 wounded in a bomb attack targeting government intelligence offices in southern Pakistan, officials say.

The second of three women found dead wrapped in rubbish bags last week in an Ohio suburb - a 28-year-old mother - is identified.

A poster campaign is launched in Germany aimed at tracking down the last surviving Nazi war criminals not yet brought to justice.

At least one person dies and dozens are missing after an asylum seeker boat heading for Australia sinks off the Indonesian coast.