More than 2,000 migrants landed on Italian shores in January, a tenfold increase on the same month last year, official figures show.

The US calls on Egypt to release three al-Jazeera journalists detained by the authorities in December on charges of collaborating with "terrorists".

A power cut which left millions in Brazil without electricity was caused by a short circuit, not a heat wave, the energy ministry says.

Two generals and dozens of colonels are among hundreds implicated in a US military fraud involving recruitment fees during the Iraq war, officials say.

UK surfer Andrew Cotton is waiting to hear if he has set the world record for riding the biggest wave.

The castaway who says he survived more than a year adrift in the Pacific has said he considered killing himself but was determined to survive.

US Secretary of State John Kerry condemns the use of barrel bombs in the Syrian city of Aleppo, as forces loyal to President Assad step up attacks.

Experts are concerned about the spread of a new strain of bird flu that has killed a woman in China.