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

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.

South Korea's forensic agency says it cannot determine the cause of death for the fugitive tycoon blamed for the recent ferry disaster.

A group of 157 asylum seekers held at sea will be brought to the Australian mainland to be detained, the immigration minister says.

Suspected Taliban gunmen kill 15 bus passengers from the minority Hazara community in the central Afghan province of Ghor, officials say.