A senior member of France's opposition UMP party admits there were "anomalies" in the accounts of Nicolas Sarkozy's 2012 presidential campaign.

A shortage of funds for vaccinating dogs is costing the lives of tens of thousands of children every year, say animal health experts.

Pope Francis announces that he will meet a group of sex abuse victims after saying the scandal was "as bad as performing a satanic mass."

A Vietnamese boat has sunk after colliding with a Chinese vessel near a controversial oil rig in the South China Sea, amid ongoing tensions.

A huge area of peatland is discovered in a remote part of Congo-Brazzaville, scientists report.

Japanese murder detectives investigate the case of a young woman whose corpse was posted across Japan, labelled as a doll.

The Malaysian government releases the raw data used to determine that missing flight MH370 crashed into the southern Indian Ocean.

China will remove six million vehicles that do not meet exhaust emission standards by the end of the year in order to improve air quality.