France's far-right National Front party wins its first ever Senate seats, with right-wing parties looking set to take control of the upper house.

Two people are killed and 18 others injured as a "monster truck" ploughs into onlookers at a motor show in the Netherlands.

Nationalist protesters tear down a statue of Lenin in the centre of Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, with officials backing its removal.

Thousands of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong defy fresh volleys of tear gas as authorities try to quell spreading unrest.

A regional Mexican political leader, Braulio Zaragoza, is shot dead by unidentified gunmen at a hotel restaurant in the popular resort of Acapulco.

President Obama acknowledges that US agencies underestimated the threat posed by the Islamist insurgency in Syria.

Afghan President-elect Ashraf Ghani is set to be inaugurated in a ceremony at the presidential palace in Kabul.

The imprisoned former chief minister of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Jayaram Jayalalitha, is to appeal against her sentence, her party says.