Apple's first quarter profit of $18bn is the biggest ever quarterly profit for a public company, according to Standard and Poor's.

Four Israeli troops are wounded in a cross-border attack by Hezbollah in Lebanon, drawing return shell-fire from Israel.

Suicide bombers and armed attackers kill about a dozen people in an assault on Tuareg rebel positions in northern Mali, security sources say.

The French government hits back in the fight against home-gown jihadists by releasing an anti-extremism online video.

A judge in the southern Spanish city of Granada charges 10 Roman Catholic priests and two Catholic lay workers with child sex abuse.

Mexico's attorney general insists that 43 students who disappeared four months ago were killed and their bodies burnt and disposed of.

Most detainees at the Australian-run Manus Island centre are not refugees and will soon be repatriated, says the PM of PNG, but campaigners dismiss the claim.

Jewish groups in Argentina boycott the government's Holocaust memorial, in protest at the investigation into the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman.