Teenager Alondra Diaz Garcia is reunited with her mother and returns to the United States eight years after being taken to Mexico by her father.

Hundreds of people gather in kayaks and small boats for a protest in the north-western US port of Seattle against Arctic oil drilling by Shell.

Charlotte Brown, a blind pole vaulter, wins a bronze medal in the Texas state high school championships.

Pope Francis is to canonise two 19th Century nuns who lived in what was then Ottoman-ruled Palestine and were native Arabic speakers.

Islamic State fighters are being smuggled into Europe by gangs in the Mediterranean, a Libyan official tells a BBC investigation.

A bomb explodes near the entrance of the main airport in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, with two teenage girls killed and at least 18 injured.

Thousands of protesters are due to take part in a rally in the Macedonian capital Skopje to demand the resignation of PM Nikola Gruevski.

Egypt executes six men convicted of carrying out an attack on soldiers last year, state media report, despite calls from rights groups for a re-trial.