BBC (UK)
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 12:42
It is the first time they have been unable to complete a scheduled visit, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) spokesman said.
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 12:41
The authorities are holding hundreds of Syrian refugees in deplorable conditions, among them children as young as one, the rights group says.
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 09:50
Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee "unprecedented levels of violence" in the Central African Republic, the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has said.
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 09:45
The United Nations has appealed for more troops and equipment for its peacekeeping force in Mali.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 08:34
About half a million people died in Iraq as a result of war-related causes between the US-led invasion in 2003 and mid-2011, an academic study suggests.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 08:28
Two Turkish Airlines pilots who were kidnapped in Lebanon in August have appeared in a video broadcast on Lebanese television.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 00:00
Soon after a peaceful march by more than 5,000 people ended in Rio, a much smaller masked group attacked shops, set fire to a police car and threw petrol bombs.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 10:00
Hundreds of people have died in detention facilities in north-east Nigeria as the army tries to crush an Islamist militant rebellion there, according to Amnesty International.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 09:29
The Libyan man who was seized earlier this month in a US raid in Tripoli has been transferred to the US to face charges in New York.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 07:59
Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has said his brief kidnap this week was an "attempted coup", blaming his political opponents for the attack.