The Vatican recalls its envoy to the Dominican Republic and launched an investigation after local media accused him of sexually abusing children.

About 140 miners who barricaded themselves inside a coal mine in Bosnia-Hercegovina in an industrial dispute leave the pit after reaching a deal with managers.

Chile's judiciary makes an unprecedented apology for failing victims of abuse during the military rule of Gen Pinochet in the 1970s and 1980s.

A lawyer for Ariel Castro, who kept women captive in Cleveland, Ohio, criticises prison authorities for taking his client off suicide watch.

An emergency operation is underway in the Salamat region of Chad after an "alarming" rise in cases of malaria.

The man sentenced to death last week for the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage has been forcibly shaved, a US Army spokesman says.

Nato's second-in-command in Afghanistan, UK Gen John Lorimer, tells the BBC that local troops are an "effective force" despite rising casualties.

A Chinese official who caused an outcry by grinning at the scene of a bus crash has been given a 14-year jail sentence for corruption, state media say.