One of Libya's most senior energy officials, Opec representative Samir Salem Kamal, disappeared on Thursday, family members tell the BBC.

Baby Gammy, who was born with Down's syndrome to a surrogate mother in Thailand, is granted Australian citizenship, local media report.

Voters in Zambia are going to the polls in a presidential election caused by the death of President Michael Sata last year.

Joel and Ethan Coen, the award-winning directors of No Country for Old Men and Fargo, will jointly head the 2015 Cannes Film Festival jury, organisers say.

The price of life-saving vaccines has skyrocketed leaving some countries struggling to fully immunise children, Medecins Sans Frontieres warns.

Two Russian artists are arrested after throwing holy water and shouting "rise up and leave" at the mausoleum containing the body of Vladimir Lenin.

Good Roman Catholics do not need to breed like "rabbits", Pope Francis says, but rejects birth controls being imposed in the developing world.

A worker at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant dies after falling into a tank, becoming the second worker to die in repair efforts.