Ricardo Izurieta, who succeeded General Pinochet as Chilean army chief in 1988, during the country's transition towards democracy. dies, aged 71.

Four far-right Jewish protesters are arrested at the Tel Aviv wedding of an Arab Muslim man and Jewish-born woman, reports say.

Germany's foreign minister says four-way talks he hosted on the Ukraine crisis were difficult, but that some progress was made.

US police confront protestors and fire tear gas to try to disperse crowds before a curfew begins for a second night in Ferguson.

The US state of Missouri is deploying the National Guard to Ferguson as protests escalate over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager.

At least 160 people are reported to have been killed in floods and landslides following days of torrential rain in Nepal and northern India.

Julian Assange suggests he will "soon" leave London's Ecuadorean embassy after two years' refuge but Wikileaks says this depends on the UK "honouring" its international obligations.

Many people died when rockets and mortars hit vehicles moving refugees from the Luhansk area of eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian military says.