Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu urges Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to hold talks that could calm a recent surge in violence.

Retired army Colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, accused of the illegal arrest and torture of some 500 activists in the 1970s, dies, aged 83.

EU states strike an action plan for Turkey that it is hoped will ease the flow of migrants to Europe.

The Canadian ambassador who helped six US diplomats escape the 1979 Tehran embassy siege dies in New York.

Opposition Venezuelan politician Manuel Rosales, who fled the country in 2009, is arrested after returning from the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba.

At least 30 people die after two explosions at a mosque near the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, an emergency official says.

The World Bank is trying to put together a package of financial assistance for countries hosting refugees from Syria.

It may be possible to prevent schizophrenia by calming down the brain's immune system, say scientists.