South Africa's highest court rules that the president violated the constitution when he failed to repay government money used to upgrade his private home.

An Israeli soldier who killed a wounded Palestinian attacker in a case which has polarised public opinion will be charged with manslaughter, reports say.

Sea levels could rise by more than double the current estimate over the next 100 years, according to a new analysis of climate change in Antarctica.

More than 10,000 tonnes of illegal food and drink, including monkey meat, are seized as part of the biggest-ever global crackdown on such goods.

The US Drug Enforcement Administration spent $86m (£60m) on a spy plane to be flown in Afghanistan, but it was never used, a government report says.

Rights group Amnesty International accuses Qatar of using forced labour over construction of a flagship stadium for the 2022 World Cup.

Six soldiers from Niger's army die in an ambush by Boko Haram militants, the country's interior ministry says.

The Pentagon plans to move roughly a dozen inmates from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to at least two countries.