The US Supreme Court has halted same-sex marriages in the state of Utah, allowed since a judge in December overturned the state's ban on gay nuptials.

A firing squad executes a soldier in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, after a military court convicts him of murdering a school pupil last year.

As fighting between rebel groups spreads in northern Syria, the powerful al-Qaeda linked Isis comes under attack in Raqqa, activists say.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel suffers a partial fracture of her pelvis in a cross-country skiing accident, her spokesman says.

Senegal seizes a Russian vessel and detains more than 80 sailors after accusing them of fishing illegally in its waters.

Liz Cheney, the daughter of former US Vice-President Dick Cheney, ends her run for a US senate in Wyoming, citing a family health crisis

Injured Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher's condition remains "stable but critical," the hospital treating him says.

Scientists find some of the earliest evidence for widespread tooth decay in humans in Stone-Age hunter-gatherers, who lived in what is now Morocco more than 13,700 years ago.