Polio cases in Pakistan have dropped by 70% this year as troops advance against militants opposed to vaccination programmes, officials tell the BBC.

Thousands attend a march in Buenos Aires calling for action against domestic violence.

Dutch politician Geert Wilders says he will show on TV cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad from an event in Texas that was attacked by gunmen.

Texas executes a 67-year-old man who was convicted of killing four men in 1983 after the US Supreme Court denied him a final appeal.

Relatives of some of the hundreds missing after a boat capsized on China's Yangtze River visit the site to protest against a lack of information.

A lawyer who defended former Guatemalan military leader Efrain Rios Montt against genocide charges is shot dead.

Twenty four robots from across the world are to race against the clock and each other to complete eight disaster relief-themed tasks.

More than 700 schools in South Korea are closed as a third person dies from the Mers virus and the number of people infected rises to 35.