India is attempting to put its first satellite in orbit around Mars, as it waits to find out whether the Mangalyaan probe successfully reaches the Red Planet.

Brazil refuses to sign up to a pact setting a deadline for ending deforestation entirely by 2030, saying the deal could clash with its laws.

Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada is expected to be released "within hours" after a Jordanian court ruled there was insufficient to convict him.

New air strikes have targeted Islamic State militants in Syria, hitting targets around the town of Kobane, near the border with Turkey.

Three Venezuelan men are sentenced to more than 20 years in jail for the murder of beauty queen Monica Spear and her British partner in January.

Nato says it has observed a "significant" withdrawal of Russian troops from eastern Ukraine, but adds that some forces still remain there.

Police forces in the European Union have made 1,000 arrests in their biggest-ever co-ordinated crackdown on organised crime, Europol announces.

The Ebola outbreak threatens to become a political crisis that could unravel years of effort to stabilise West Africa, a think tank warns.