Japanese video game maker Nintendo says its chief executive Satoru Iwata has died of cancer at the age of 55.

A suicide car bomb kills at least 17 people, mostly women and children, near a military base once used by the CIA in eastern Afghanistan.

Eighteen people are evacuated from a shopping centre north of Paris, after up to three armed men entered the building early on Monday.

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta has been charged as part of a a long-running corruption investigation, prosecutors say.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari replaces the army, navy and air force chiefs, following an upsurge in Boko Haram attacks.

Pope Francis says that he did not chew coca during his recent trip to Bolivia, where the leaves are used to alleviate the effects of the high altitude.

The Boy Scouts of America unanimously approves a resolution to end the organisation's ban on gay adults working as leaders.

At least 28 people have been killed in a spate of bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, officials say.