Three people are killed in Egypt as gunmen on motorcycles open fire on a wedding party outside a Coptic Christian church in Cairo.

Maldives opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed calls for fresh presidential polls under a caretaker leader, a day after police halted the vote.

More than 8,000 calls are made to a Greek charity after an appeal to discover the identity of a blonde girl found living on a Roma settlement.

Former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan tells the BBC that the US debt ceiling crisis is far from over, that the eurozone needs political union, and "crony capitalism" is growing.

US ties with Pakistan "could not be more important", Secretary of State John Kerry says at the start of Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif's US visit.

Mexico strongly denounces alleged US spying after a magazine report claims former President Felipe Calderon's emails were hacked in 2010.

The European Court of Human Rights is to rule on Russia's handling of its inquiry into the 1940 Katyn massacre of more than 20,000 Polish war prisoners.

Emile Louis, a serial killer jailed for life in France for the murders of seven women in the 1970s, has died aged 79, his lawyer says.