Germany's top firms rush to defend Deutsche Bank amid concerns over the troubled lender's financial health.

Taliban militants have been repelled following a co-ordinated attack on the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, officials say.

Five men accused of murdering Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov are due to go on trial in Moscow.

The 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to Yoshinori Ohsumi for discoveries about the secrets of how cells can remain healthy by recycling waste.

At least 15 Turkish-backed Syrian rebels are killed in clashes with Islamic State militants, as they move on the group's stronghold of Dabiq.

Top Nigerian actress Rahma Sadau is banned from Kannywood, the Hausa-language film industry, for "immoral" behaviour, the main industry body says.

The main trauma hospital in the rebel-held east of the Syrian city of Aleppo has reportedly been hit in an air strike for the third time in a week.

A senior leader in a Syrian militant group that split this year from al-Qaeda is reportedly killed in an air strike in north-western Syria.