More than 2,000 prisoners escape over the last five years in Nigeria, the authorities say, mainly because of attacks by Boko Haram militants.

Burkina Faso's political parties agree a year-long political transition but fail to choose a new interim leader, during talks in Ouagadougou.

Mongolia's PM Norov Altankhuyag is removed after MPs, including some from his party, vote to dismiss him amid corruption allegations.

A new malware targeting Apple products is affecting hundreds of thousands of users - mostly Chinese, says an online security firm.

Australia rejects a claim that it offered to accommodate asylum seekers if they withdrew statements about a death at a detention facility.

A Kuwaiti terror suspect - one of the longest-held detainees at the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay - is sent home, officials say.

The head of the UN mission charged with fighting Ebola tells the BBC he does not yet have the resources necessary to defeat the deadly disease.

Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong scuffle with police in the first increase in tensions in more than a fortnight.