A German opposition leader, Sahra Wagenknecht, has a chocolate cake shoved in her face in an apparent protest over her stance on migrants.

Pakistan's media regulator bans commercials for family planning products after complaints that they prompted curiosity in "innocent children".

A flotilla of EU ships rescue more than 600 migrants from smugglers' boats off Libya, bringing the weekly total to at least 13,000.

Iraqi government forces make gains in their offensive to drive Islamic State militants from Falluja - one the country's two major cities in IS hands.

The French and German leaders are to mark the 100th anniversary of Verdun, the longest battle of World War One - and one of its most brutal.

The German airline, Lufthansa, says it will suspend flights to Venezuela from next month due to growing economic difficulties in the country.

A Chinese firm apologises over a now notorious advert in which a black man is stuffed into a washing machine and emerges a light-skinned Asian.

Zoo officials shoot dead a gorilla after it grabbed a four-year-old boy who fell into its enclosure in the US city of Cincinnati.