US Secretary of State John Kerry says the number of states ready to take military action against Syria's government is in "double digits".

Tens of thousands of demonstrators have marched in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, calling for the resignation of the Islamist-led government.

Moscow prepares for its first mayoral election in nearly a decade, with protest movement leader Alexei Navalny facing the incumbent Sergei Sobyanin.

The former judge Otilio Romano has been extradited to Argentina, accused of human rights abuses under the military government.

Female Afghan MP Fariba Ahmadi Kakar has been released by her Taliban kidnappers, the militants and Afghan officials say.

Cambodia's election commission confirms the ruling People's Party (CPP) as the winner of July's election, which was marred by fraud allegations.

Australia's PM-elect Tony Abbott says his top priorities in office are to scrap the carbon tax and to stop asylum-seekers arriving by boat.

At least four Afghan intelligence staff are killed when suicide bombers attack offices of the provincial intelligence department in Wardak.