Haiti installs a Provisional Electoral Council to organise long-delayed elections - after weeks of protests and political uncertainty.

Rockets fired by pro-Russian rebels kill at least 15 people and injure dozens in Ukraine's government-held port city of Mariupol, police say.

Four suspected members of an Islamist militant network are arrested in the Spanish territory of Ceuta bordering Morocco.

Defence Minister Edgar Lungu wins Zambia's presidential election for the governing Patriotic Front with 48.3% of the vote.

The US Supreme Court will hear the case of three death row inmates who say the use of the sedative midazolam in executions is cruel and unusual punishment.

Brazil's Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira says the country's most populous states are experiencing their worst water crisis since 1930.

World leaders are due to arrive in Saudi Arabia to pay their respects in person after the death on Friday of King Abdullah.

A young Colorado woman is sentenced to four years in jail for trying to provide material support to the militant group Islamic State.