At least 10 people are killed in the Lebanese city of Tripoli in two days of fighting between supporters and opponents of Syria's President Assad.

The organisation charged with overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons confirms some will be "neutralised" aboard a US Navy ship.

The US urges its commercial aircraft to comply with China's rules in the new air defence zone around disputed islands in the East China Sea.

An ethnic Tuareg separatist group says it is ending a ceasefire with Mali's government, a day after clashes between troops and protesters in Kidal.

The wreckage of a Mozambique Airlines plane that disappeared over Namibia has been found, but none of the 34 people on board survived, local police say.

Authorities in Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, fight a major blaze at a landmark building designed by modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer.

The announcer at England's tour match in Alice Springs is stood down for racially mocking Monty Panesar.

Police fire tear gas to disperse supporters of Egypt's ousted Islamist president in Cairo, as amendments to the constitution adopted during his time in office are agreed.