Naming a drug-resistant superbug after the Indian capital Delhi was an "error of judgement", the editor of the Lancet medical journal says.

Haiti marks the anniversary of the quake that killed 250,000 people and left much of the nation in ruins.

One of Belgium's best-known actors urges his fellow citizens not to shave until the country finally forms a government.

Lebanon's national unity government collapses after 11 ministers from the Shia movement Hezbollah and its allies resign.

At least 17 people die as a suicide bomber rams a police station with an explosives-laden pick-up truck in north-west Pakistan.

More than 50 people die in Rio de Janeiro state as flooding and mudslides continue to hit south-eastern Brazil.

Five suspected rhino poachers have been shot dead in South Africa's biggest game park in the last four days, officials reveal.

Chinese demolition workers tear down the Shanghai studio of controversial artist Ai Weiwei, in a move he says is linked to his political activism.