Two members of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party are killed and a third is wounded in a drive-by shooting outside its offices in Athens.

US President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki discuss how to "push back" a resurgent al-Qaeda in the country.

Popular Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef's television show is suspended a week after it mocked the country's army and its chief.

Niger says it will close illegal migrant camps in the north of the country after 92 people died of thirst crossing the Sahara.

Forensic scientists in Bosnia unearth the remains of 360 people at what is believed to be the largest mass grave from the war in the 1990s.

Brazil and Germany submit a draft resolution to the UN calling for the right to privacy in the digital age, amid a bitter row over US espionage.

Pirates off the Horn of Africa netted more than $400m in ransom money between 2005 and 2012, a World Bank/UN report says.

An explosion at a fireworks factory in the southern Chinese region of Guangxi kills 11 people and injures 17, state media say.