Suspected Islamic militants attack the town of Damboa in north-east Nigeria, killing at least 11 people, reports say.

Canadian animal welfare officers in Brantford, Ontario, rescue 40 distressed pythons from plastic storage bins in a motel room.

The government of the Bahamas deports back to Cuba 24 refugees who had applied for asylum in the US and other countries.

The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo says that 82 children have been rescued from an armed group in Katanga province.

Pakistani Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan says that his government has "learned lessons" from Thursday's stand-off between police and a gunman.

Egyptian security forces enter a Cairo mosque to try to persuade hundreds of besieged Muslim Brotherhood supporters to leave.

Irina Walker, daughter of Romania's last king, appears in court in the US accused of running a cockfighting business in Oregon.

Spanish police say they do not believe two UK residents were forced into attempting to smuggle drugs out of Peru.