A 103-year-old Paraguayan man has married his partner after living together for 80 years, in a religious ceremony attended by five generations of their family.

The UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal in Cambodia starts hearing closing statements, in what officials call a "final milestone".

Tens of thousands have been forced to flee "unprecedented levels of violence" in the Central African Republic, where entire villages have been burnt to the ground, MSF says.

Malware designed to steal information from payment cards' magnetic strips strikes thousands of restaurants and retailers in South Africa.

A provincial law minister and at least seven other people are killed in a suicide blast in north-west Pakistan on the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.

A senior Syrian Church leader says almost a third of the country's Christians have fled their homes - but insists the Christian community will survive.

Four suspected illegal migrants die and 11 others are rescued after a boat capsizes in waters off Miami, the US Coastguard says.

Two Turkish pilots kidnapped in Lebanon in August apparently in connection with the Syria conflict appear in a video on Lebanese television.