The Cassini spacecraft is set to make a final ultra-close flyby of Enceladus, the brilliant white moon of Saturn, and 'taste' the water it is spewing into space.

Dominican Republic calls on France to extradite two pilots who fled after being convicted of trafficking cocaine.

Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara wins a second five-year term with nearly 84% of vote, electoral commission officials say.

Global pharmacy giant Walgreens Boots Alliance agrees to buy US-based rival Rite Aid in a $17.2bn (£11.2bn) all-cash deal

The gay Polish priest who was stripped of his post after coming out as gay says the Roman Catholic Church is causing "immeasurable suffering" to homosexual Catholics.

Slovenia says it will erect a fence along its border with Croatia if the EU does not help to process the thousands of migrants arriving daily.

A Venezuelan ex-prosecutor in the case of Leopoldo Lopez says the opposition leader was wrongly imprisoned because the government feared him.

An African Union report accuses government and rebel forces in South Sudan of extreme violence, including rape, killings and episodes of cannibalism.