EU foreign ministers are due to discuss calls to list the military wing of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd defends Australia's new policy of sending asylum-seekers to Papua New Guinea, saying it targets "merchants in death".

Falling television sets have injured nearly 200,000 children in the US over 20 years, a study finds.

At least 25 security personnel are killed in attacks on two Iraqi prisons near Baghdad, while 12 others are killed in a suicide bombing in Mosul.

A British national kidnapped in the Nigerian city of Lagos on Friday has been released, the British High Commission says.

Kenyan-born UK cyclist Chris Froome says he hopes that his victory in the Tour de France will inspire young Africans.

UK pharmaceuticals firm GlaxoSmithKline says that senior executives in its China office appear to have broken the law amid a bribery scandal.

Marte Deborah Dalelv, the Norwegian woman at the centre of a Dubai rape case dispute, says she has been pardoned and is free to leave Dubai.