Thirty-five restaurants across China have been caught illegally using opium poppies as a seasoning, food safety officials reveal.

Indonesian investigators seek information from Australia about a woman who died after drinking coffee laced with cyanide.

France will seek to keep a state of emergency until a "total and global war" against so-called Islamic State (IS) is over, PM Manuel Valls tells the BBC.

Markets in Asia rally after US and European markets rebound and as oil prices rise to above $30 a barrel.

North Korea says it has arrested a US student accused of committing a "hostile act" against the state, without giving further details.

Shares across Europe continue to rise, boosted by rising oil prices and hopes of more stimulus measures by central banks.

Kenyan forces in Somalia were warned of an impending al-Shabab attack 45 days before the group overran one of their bases, a Somali general says.

More than 40 migrants are reported to have drowned overnight off the Greek coast in two separate shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea.