Residents of a poor community near Rio de Janeiro torch vehicles in protest at the deaths of two young men in incidents involving the police.

Four French journalists released after 10 months in captivity in Syria arrive back in France.

The Russian foreign ministry expresses outrage at a fatal shooting incident in eastern Ukraine which it blames on Ukrainian nationalists.

A drone attack in south Yemen has killed at least three suspected al-Qaeda fighters, defence officials and local tribal chiefs say.

The last communications between the South Korean ferry that sank on Wednesday and traffic services reveal panic and indecision by the crew.

India's cricket board appoints a three-member investigative panel to look into allegations of corruption in the Indian Premier League.

Japan begins building a military radar station near the Senkaku islands, focus of a bitter territorial row with China, which calls them the Diaoyus.

Dozens of people are killed in a cattle raid in a remote herders' camp in South Sudan's northern Warrap state, local officials say.