An Israeli policeman has been stabbed but unhurt and his assailant shot dead in the latest such attack in Jerusalem.

The mayor of a town in western Guatemala is lynched by a group of residents who accused him of ordering an attack on his political rival.

A court in Egypt orders the release of the two sons of ousted former President Hosni Mubarak, five months after they are convicted of embezzlement.

The Turkish air force pounds Kurdish militants as the country mourns for nearly 100 people killed in a bomb attack in the capital, Ankara.

President Vladimir Putin defends Russia's military operations in Syria, saying the aim is to "stabilise the legitimate authority" of Bashar al-Assad.

A woman who said she was raped at Australia's asylum seeker detention centre on Nauru arrives in Australia for an abortion, after public pressure.

The Governor of Alaska tells the BBC that expanding the state's search for oil is necessary to pay for the damage caused by climate change.

Police in the Indian capital Delhi are questioning two men in connection with the rape of a four-year-old girl.