Egyptian officials are to brief Italian counterparts in Rome on progress in an investigation into the brutal Cairo murder of student Giulio Regeni.

A South African court throws out a bid by the ex-wife of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela to inherit his home in the rural village of Qunu.

Dozens of people are reported missing in the wake of an attack by the so-called Islamic State on a cement factory east of Damascus.

Nigeria's army says 800 militants from the Islamist Boko Haram group who have surrendered and shown remorse are to be rehabilitated into society.

Former coal CEO Don Blankenship is sentenced to prison for his role in a West Virginia mine explosion that killed 29 men in 2010.

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir tells the BBC he will step down in 2020 when his current term ends, and denies recent reports of abuses in Darfur.

A Bangladeshi law student who expressed secular views online is killed in the capital Dhaka, after a string of murders by Islamist extremists.

The US state of Florida repeals a rarely enforced law that barred unmarried couples from living together.