The leaders of China and Japan hold formal talks on the sidelines of a major Asian summit, after more than two years of tension over a territorial row.

At least 47 students are killed by a suicide bomber at a school assembly in the north-east Nigerian town of Potiskum, police say.

A recorded conversation between an apologetic Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher over the invasion of Grenada is published for the first time.

Hundreds of relatives and friends gather in Amsterdam to remember those who died on Malaysia Airlines MH17 over Ukraine.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he will study a UN proposal for "local ceasefires" in the war-ravaged northern city of Aleppo.

A 26-year-old Israeli woman is stabbed to death in an attack in the West Bank, hours after another knife attack wounded a soldier in Tel Aviv.

The first visit to Serbia for 68 years by an Albanian prime minister turns into a diplomatic spat broadcast live on TV.

Residents of parts of the Russian capital Moscow are urged to stay indoors after authorities say a noxious gas is spreading through the city.