Delaware's Supreme Court has ruled that the state's death penalty is unconstitutional

Burundi's government rejects a decision to deploy a UN police force to the country in an effort to end more than a year of political violence.

At least 18 people die in a suicide bomb blast targeting soldiers in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi.

Dublin's archbishop says he will stop sending trainee priests to the Republic of Ireland's main Catholic college after allegations emerged of a gay culture at the seminary.

Security forces in Colombia carry out a huge operation to destroy more than a hundred cocaine production laboratories in the south-eastern jungle.

Intense fighting continues around the Syrian city of Aleppo, where a rebel offensive is trying to break the government siege of opposition-held areas.

North Korea test-fires a ballistic missile which travels 1,000km (620 miles) before landing in Japanese waters, say South Korea and Japan.

South Africans are going to the polls for local elections in a ballot seen as a test for President Jacob Zuma and his ruling ANC party.