The Nigerian president says Boko Haram "will not win", after a series of attacks blamed on the militant Islamist group.

The number of cars set alight in France on New Year's Eve fell significantly this year, the government says.

The Italian coast guard says it is trying to board a second abandoned migrant ship, days after 970 migrants were rescued on another ship.

Japan's birth rate slumps to a record low in 2014, health ministry figures show, with barely 1m newborns in 2014 - 9,000 fewer than in 2013.

The brothers of jailed Australian al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste say that they will push for Egypt's president to release him by decree.

Cuban dissidents say police have arrested a group of political activists who were protesting outside a jail in the capital, Havana.

The search for AirAsia flight QZ8510 which crashed into the sea on Sunday is to move underwater, with the arrival of specialist equipment.

Former Democratic Governor of New York Mario Cuomo dies just before his son Andrew is inaugurated as governor for a second term.