US President Barack Obama says he will take unilateral action to tackle gun violence, because Congress has failed to act.

Haiti's President Michel Martelly says the run-off vote in the presidential election, due last week, will be held on 17 January.

Tens of thousands of Algerians attend the burial of national independence hero Hocine Ait-Ahmed in his home village.

Two gunmen are killed as a shoot-out continues, following a pre-dawn attack on Pathankot air force base in India's Punjab state.

The prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr is among 47 people executed for terrorism offences in Saudi Arabia, the interior ministry says.

A manhunt is under way in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv after a gunman killed two people in a bar in the centre of the city on Friday.

Somali Islamist group al-Shabab releases a propaganda video which uses footage of the US presidential hopeful Donald Trump calling for a ban on Muslims.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen ends a ceasefire that began last month, blaming violations by Houthi rebels and its allies.