Israeli warplanes attack Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip in response to a militant rocket barrage into southern Israel, the military says.

Charges against Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, whose arrest cooled US-Indian relations, are dropped by a US judge.

Two people die as protests erupt across Turkey, Turkish media say, after the funeral of a teenager who had been in a coma since clashes last year.

Japanese electronics firm Panasonic announces it will pay its staff working in China a premium to compensate them for high levels of pollution.

Pope Francis marks his first year in office on Thursday, but will spend it in characteristically low profile - in a spiritual retreat outside Rome.

Election officials say ex-rebel Salvador Sanchez Ceren has won El Salvador's presidential poll after a manual vote count, but his rival can still appeal.

A forensics expert defends police handling of evidence from the scene where athlete Oscar Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

Ukraine's parliament votes unanimously to create a 60,000-strong National Guard to bolster the country's defences.