Police in India say they have killed at least 20 suspected sandalwood smugglers in fierce gunfights in Andhra Pradesh.

Athens says Germany owes Greece nearly 279bn euros in war reparations for the Nazi occupation in World War Two.

Turkey threatened to ban Google unless it removed links to controversial images of a prosecutor being held at gunpoint.

A man and his seven children have been found dead at home, apparently overcome from carbon monoxide poisoning, says a relative.

Hundreds of people attend a candle-lit vigil in Kenya to remember the victims of last week's attack on a university by militant Islamists.

The DR Congo government is urged to investigate more than 400 bodies found in an unmarked burial ground in the capital Kinshasa.

Eight Iranian border guards have been killed in a clash with gunmen in a province near Pakistan, Iranian media say.

About 2,500 people march in Kenya's Garissa town in a show of defiance against al-Shabab following its deadly assault on a university.