Cuba lifts restrictions on people buying foreign-made new and used cars for the first time since the revolution in 1959.

A woman who threw a message in a bottle into the North Sea in Hull more than 20 years ago receives a reply after it was discovered in the Netherlands.

The number of internally displaced people in the Central African Republic has doubled to 935,000 in a month amid escalating violence, the UN warns.

US President Barack Obama's administration announces measures aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous mentally ill people.

The French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean is brushed by cyclone Bejisa, leaving 15 people injured, power lines cut and some homes damaged.

More than 300 migrants, mostly Africans, are rescued from rough waters in two separate incidents off the coasts of Italy and Greece, officials say.

Facebook is facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that it monitors users' private messages to profile the sender's web activity.

Norwegian and Danish ships are set to sail again from Cyprus in a new bid to collect Syria's chemical arms, after an earlier deadline was missed.