Diplomats join a protest in Hungary against a planned statue honouring a pro-Nazi minister who targeted the country's Jews in the 1930s.

Ecuador has agreed to allow Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to be questioned by the Swedish authorities at the Ecuadorean embassy in London.

South African President Jacob Zuma fires newly appointed Finance Minister David van Rooyen and names Pravin Gordhan as his successor in a surprise announcement.

An Australian teenager, detained during raids in Melbourne in May, pleads guilty to a terror-related charge.

A judge in Mexico City sentences two men to 520 years in prison for the kidnap and murder of 13 young people at a bar in the city two years ago.

Scuffles between police and journalists break out outside the trial of one of China's most prominent human rights lawyers

Guo Guangchang, the high-profile Chinese tycoon detained by police late last week, appears in public at his company's annual meeting on Monday.

The premiere of the latest in the Star Wars franchise, The Force Awakens, takes place in Los Angeles later.