Six former Berlusconi loyalists in the Italian parliament urge the prime minister to resign as the government fails to agree urgent economic reforms.

Troubled US actress Lindsay Lohan is given a 30-day jail term for breaching probation for previous offences.

At least 70 tonnes of smuggled minerals seized by Rwandan police is being handed back to the DR Congo in a sign of improved relations between the two neighbours.

Passengers are evacuated after a ferry carrying at least 1,200 people catches fire in the Red Sea, not far from Aqaba.

Chinese-run copper mines in Zambia are dangerously unsafe and owners routinely flout the rights of workers, says a report by Human Rights Watch.

Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammed Asif and Mohammad Amir have been jailed over a spot fixing plot.

A 1915 Gustav Klimt landscape, looted by the Nazis and recently returned to a relative of the owner, sells for $40.4m (£25.4m) at a New York auction.

Paul Biya is sworn in for a sixth term as Cameroon's president after winning elections rejected by the opposition as fraudulent.