Ukraine's new leader says his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin was tense, but marked the start of dialogue over the crisis in the east.

A Canadian man accused of killing three police officers and wounding two others in Moncton, New Brunswick, is charged with three counts of murder.

The United States Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA, announces it has opened its first official accounts on Twitter and Facebook.

Mental health care inside Los Angeles County jails is so deplorable it violates a ban on cruelty, the US justice department has said.

Altaf Hussain, the exiled leader of Pakistan's MQM party, is released after being questioned by police in London on suspicion of money laundering.

New York's Metropolitan Opera faces bankruptcy in "two or three years" if it does not cut its wages bill, its boss tells the BBC.

Rising sea levels have disturbed the skeletons of soldiers killed on the Marshall Islands during World War Two.

Petro Poroshenko is to be sworn in as president of Ukraine, amid hopes the move could help put an end to fighting in the east of the country.