Israeli intelligence took a different view of Iran's nuclear capabilities from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a leaked cable suggests.

French President Francois Hollande lays out proposals to strengthen laws on anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic hate crimes.

President Joko Widodo says foreign nations should not interfere in Indonesia's right to use the death penalty, amid plans for more executions.

Islamic State (IS) militants have abducted at least 90 people from Assyrian Christian villages in north-eastern Syria, monitoring groups say.

The head of the United Nations climate change panel, Rajendra Pachauri, steps down amid sexual harassment allegations he denies.

Masked gunmen in southern Afghanistan abduct 30 ethnic Hazara men who were travelling by bus from neighbouring Iran.

A French woman working for an international organisation has been kidnapped in Yemen, the French foreign ministry says.

A gunman kills eight people in a restaurant in the eastern Czech Republic town of Uhersky Brod before shooting himself dead, officials say.