Algerian MPs pass a package of reforms that reinstate a limit on presidential terms and give the Berber language official status for the first time.

Four people, including a boy, are killed in Burundi in a grenade attack on a bar in the capital Bujumbura, officials say.

An investigation into the construction of a Taiwanese apartment complex toppled by an earthquake is launched, as hopes of finding more survivors diminish.

The mother of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Anisa, has died at the age of 86 in the capital Damascus, his office announces.

A total of 132 people remain trapped under the rubble of an apartment block in the Taiwanese city of Tainan after Saturday's earthquake, officials say.

A former head of the French Foreign Legion is arrested with about 20 other protesters at a banned anti-Islam rally in the port of Calais.

North Korea fires a long-range rocket in defiance of international warnings, after announcing it intended to put an earth observation satellite into orbit.

Militants freed an Australian woman kidnapped with her husband last month in Burkina Faso, where they provided health services.