The UN has warned that up to 200,000 people have been forced to flee after Islamic State militants take over more towns in northern Iraq.

An attack that killed 10 people at a UN-run Gaza school was a "moral outrage and a criminal act", UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says.

A Royal Navy ship is on its way to Tripoli to help evacuate Britons after violence worsens in Libya, the BBC understands.

Australia sends a group of 157 Tamil asylum seekers to Nauru to be processed for resettlement there or deportation to Sri Lanka.

The worst clashes in years over the disputed Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan leave 15 dead in recent days.

The Israeli military says soldier Hadar Goldin, reported missing in Gaza on Friday, is dead, as PM Netanyahu says its operation there will continue.

Campaigners call for clearer rules after a Thai woman was left with a Down's syndrome baby when his parents refused to take him.

China gives the first definitive death toll, 37 civilians, in what it calls a gang attack last week in the eastern province of Xinjiang.