Canada's PM-designate Justin Trudeau tells the US president he will be withdrawing Canadian fighter jets from the air strikes against Islamic State.

Six leaders of Singapore's City Harvest megachurch are found guilty of misusing S$50m ($35m; £23m) in church money to fund the pastor's wife pop career.

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has held talks with Russia's President Putin on an unannounced visit to Moscow, his first foreign trip since civil war started in 2011.

Tropical Storm Koppu heads away from the Philippines' main island of Luzon, leaving behind a trail of devastation in the farming region.

An Indian monk from the Jain religion says he needs eight months to answer a court summons, as he will have to walk in accordance with his faith.

Nearly 700 recruits have returned to Kenya after quitting militant groups in the region, a report from the International Organization for Migration says.

The Vatican rejects as "seriously irresponsible" an Italian newspaper report that Pope Francis has a small but curable tumour on his brain.

Romania's ex-President Ion Iliescu appears in court on charges of crimes against humanity over the violent suppression of a protest in 1990.