Iran and six world powers meeting in Geneva reach a deal on Tehran's nuclear programme, foreign ministers say, without giving details.

Mali is on security alert for parliamentary elections on Sunday, the second nationwide poll since a French military intervention earlier this year.

A security pact with the US is backed by Afghan elders who call for it to be signed this year rather than delayed as President Karzai wants.

More than 100,000 protesters gather in Ukraine's capital Kiev, demanding that the government reverse a decision to delay a landmark deal with the EU.

Human rights groups in Egypt criticise a new law on protests, saying it will restrict the right to peaceful demonstration.

The US secretary of state says the deal reached over Iran's nuclear programme will make the Middle East safer, but Israel fiercely disagrees.

The Pope has put on public display nine tiny fragments of bone which may belong to St Peter, the first Pope.

A Saudi girl who eloped to Yemen to be with her Yemeni lover gets UN protection as she seeks asylum, and her application is likely to be approved.