Cuba and the United States agree to restore a direct postal service, suspended 52 years ago at the height of the Cold War.

Saudi Arabia is to go to the polls for unprecedented elections in which women will cast a ballot for the first time.

Organisers of climate talks in Paris say a final draft text has been agreed after nearly two weeks of intensive negotiations.

All the Taliban gunmen involved in a deadly attack on a foreign guesthouse near the Spanish embassy in Kabul have been killed, Afghan officials say.

Spanish police say they have seized dozen of pallets made out 1.4 tonnes of compressed cocaine that was made to look like wood.

The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse investigates how 24 paintings, stolen over a decade ago, fell into the hands of Ukranian militia.

A German nuclear fusion experiment produces a special super-hot gas which scientists hope will eventually lead to clean, cheap energy.

Fifa vice-president Juan Angel Napout resigns as president of the South American football confederation Conmebol.