Lithuania's incumbent President Dalia Grybauskaite declares victory after a second round of voting in the Baltic country's elections.

The leader of the Zapatista rebels in southern Mexico, Subcomandante Marcos, announces he is leaving the 20-year-old guerrilla group.

Petro Poroshenko, the businessman who looks on course to win Ukraine's presidential election, says he wants to "end war and bring peace".

There is a "high demand" for cancer treatment from refugees, which is often difficult to meet, experts say.

A huge security operation is under way across Egypt as voters prepare to head to the polls to elect a new president.

Thailand's military leader receives royal endorsement at a ceremony in the capital, Bangkok, after taking power in a coup last week.

Pope Francis is to visit Israel's national Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, on the final leg of his three-day Middle East tour.

Narendra Modi is to be sworn in as India's new prime minister in a ceremony to be attended by his counterpart from rival Pakistan.