The US says Russia has fired artillery at Ukrainian military positions in the east, a week after the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 disaster.

The first UN aid shipment to Syria delivered without the consent of the government has arrived in the north of the country.

The wreck of a plane that disappeared with 116 people on board on a flight from Burkina Faso to Algiers has been found in Mali, officials say.

A US court dismisses a lawsuit against Chiquita brought by Colombians who accuse the banana grower of paying fighters who tortured their relatives.

The Caribbean island of Aruba has detained a top Venezuelan official, Gen Hugo Carvajal, sought in the US for drug trafficking offences.

An American reporter for the Washington Post, his wife and two other US journalists appear to have been detained in Tehran, the newspaper says.

A Mexican federal judge charges six employees of a children's home at the heart of an abuse scandal in the city of Zamora.

At least two Palestinians have been killed at a march in the West Bank in protests against Israel's military operation in Gaza.