US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Afghanistan to help resolve tensions over the country's hotly disputed presidential elections.

A 4,000-year-old Egyptian statue is sold for nearly £16m at Christie's of London, amid calls from the country's ambassador for it to be handed back to Egypt.

Some 200 Ghanaians who went to Brazil to watch their team playing in the World Cup ask for asylum on religious grounds.

A US man convicted of selling trade secrets to a Chinese state-owned company is sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The US is ready to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza, President Barack Obama says, amid continued fighting.

China has for the first time admitted that it permits trade in skins from captive tigers, participants at a Cites meeting on endangered species say.

Amnesty International says that it has "compelling evidence of beatings" of people kidnapped by separatist groups in eastern Ukraine.

An overloaded minivan ferrying children home from kindergarten in China's Hunan province crashes into a pond, killing all 11 on board.