A US diplomat ordered to leave Bahrain on Monday after meeting members of a leading Shia opposition group speaks out against the move on Twitter.

Brazil suffer one of the most humiliating World Cup defeats as Germany score five first-half goals in reaching the final.

Palestinian militants fire more rockets at Israeli cities after the start of a major air and sea offensive by Israel in the Gaza Strip.

North Korea fires two suspected short-range missiles off eastern coast into the sea, South Korea says, in the fourth such test in two weeks.

Public sector workers in Greece begin a 24-hour strike in protest at continuing spending cuts, with hospitals and prisons among sites affected.

The BBC's David Willey says the president and four non-executive members of the governing board of the Vatican bank will step down on Wednesday.

Police in India are to exhume the bodies of two teenage cousins who were gang-raped and murdered in May for a fresh autopsy, media reports say.

Rebels control a disused factory with deadly nerve agents, Iraq's government confirms, warning it cannot fulfil commitments to destroy the weapons.