International Monetary Fund officials are in Cairo to hold talks with the Egyptian government about authorising a $4.8bn (£3.2bn) loan for the country.

Ousted Central African Republic leader Francois Bozize accuses Chad in a BBC interview of aiding and fighting with rebels that toppled him.

State schools are shut throughout Denmark because of a dispute between teachers and local authorities over working conditions.

A shamed former South Carolina governor will face the sister of a TV political satirist in a special election for a vacant seat in the US Congress.

Hundreds of students at Egypt's al-Azhar university break into the offices of the country's top Muslim cleric of the al-Azhar mosque, following mass food poisoning.

Unusually heavy rains cause flash floods in Buenos Aires, in Argentina, leaving eight people dead in the city and its suburbs.

Police in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh investigate an attack on four sisters who suffered burns after acid was thrown at them.

Cyprus has agreed to a set of "challenging" measures, the IMF says, that will release a 10bn-euro international bailout.