A series of bomb attacks in and around the Iraqi capital Baghdad leaves at least 18 people dead as violence continues to plague the country.

The release of a man who has spent more than four decades in solitary confinement is delayed after a request by Louisiana's top lawyer.

The US police officer filmed pinning a black girl to the ground and pointing his gun at teenagers at a pool party in Texas resigns, officials say.

The remains of 44 victims of the Germanwings plane crash arrive in Duesseldorf, where they will be handed over to families for burial.

A woman in Belgium is the first in the world to give birth to a baby using transplanted ovarian tissue frozen when she was still a child, doctors say.

Pakistan executes a man who was 15 when he was sentenced to death for a double murder in 1992 and who rights groups say was tortured into confessing.

Crisis-hit Fifa looks set to elect a successor for president Sepp Blatter by the end of the year.

President Park Geun-hye postpones her US visit over Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers), which has now killed nine people in South Korea.