An amendment to the rules at the ICC could mean that Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta gives evidence by video link at his trial in February.

The head of a Latvian supermarket chain loses his job over controversial comments he made after the collapse of a shop in Riga, which killed 54 people.

Two "improvised launch devices" were fired near a US military base in Japan on Thursday, officials say, with no injuries or damage reported.

A 55-year-old forensic scientist who works for Saxony's police is arrested after the dismembered body of a 59-year-old man is found.

Two Indonesian air force pilots are investigated for allegedly trying to smuggle Australian parrots into Indonesia, military officials say.

Shoppers in the US make an even earlier start to their holiday shopping, as a record number of stores opened before the traditional Black Friday.

Prison officers' union calls for tighter security after drones were used to try to smuggle contraband into jails in US and Canada.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemns a US air strike that he says killed a small child and injured two women in southern Helmand province.