Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif rules out deploying the army to tackle spiralling violence in the country's biggest city, Karachi.

The US trade deficit widened in July from June due to a fall in exports and growing imports of cars, trucks and motoring parts.

Africa's wealthiest man, Aliko Dangote, signs a multi-billion dollar deal with banks to finance the building of a huge oil refinery in Nigeria.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a $6.7bn (£4.3bn) loan for Pakistan amid a continuing economic crisis in the country.

Chinese authorities recover 100 tonnes (220,000lb) of poisoned fish from a river in central Hubei province, state media report.

About 140 miners barricade themselves inside a coal mine in northern Bosnia-Hercegovina in a dispute over pay and managerial recruitment.

One of the most famous statues in the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, is removed from view for a year of restoration.

A power cut leaves almost half of Venezuela without electricity, including parts of the capital Caracas.