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Portugal interior minister resigns over 'golden visas' probe Portugal's Interior Minister resigned, three days after top officials were detained in a corruption probe linked to "golden visas" for wealthy foreign investors.

17 November 2014

Britain's Cameron 'horrified' by Kassig murder British Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "horrified" after the Islamic State jihadist group claimed to have executed US aid worker Peter Kassig.

17 November 2014

Thousands protest in Spain over Western Sahara Several thousand people demonstrated in Madrid iin support of independence for the disputed territory of Western Sahara.

17 November 2014

Ukraine 'ready for total war' says Poroshenko Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko claimed his country was "prepared for total war" as fighting continued around the rebel stronghold of Donetsk.

17 November 2014

Famous Kazakh astronaut comments on Rosetta mission Famous Kazakh cosmonaut Talgat Musabayev praises the Rosetta mission, which saw a space probe landing on the surface of a comet for the first time in human history.

17 November 2014

Black weekend as storms lash Italy, Switzerland, France At least four people were killed as landslides triggered by torrential rain slammed into buildings on either side of the Swiss-Italian border.

17 November 2014

Money from National Fund to help out Kazakh economy Experts talk about tasks set by Nazarbayev in his State-of-the-Nation Address and allocation of additional $3bln in the next three years.

17 November 2014

Japan's Okinawa elects governor opposed to US base Residents of Japan's Okinawa Sunday elected a governor who opposes plans to relocate a US military base within the island chain, a fresh setback in efforts to resolve a thorny issue in military relations.

17 November 2014

China to double Iran energy investment: official China will double its investment in Iran's energy projects, ahead of a deadline for a deal with world powers over Tehran's nuclear programme.

17 November 2014

Netherlands bans poultry transport after discovering bird flu Dutch officials banned the transport of poultry in the Netherlands after the discovery of a highly infectious strain of bird flu which could jump to humans.

17 November 2014

Napoleon's two-pointed hat auctioned for 1.9 mln euros One of Napoleon's famous two-pointed hats was sold to a South Korean collector for 1.9 million euros ($2.2 million) at an auction outside Paris.

17 November 2014

Ebola death toll rises to 5,177: WHO The World Health Organization said Friday that 5,177 people had so far died of Ebola across eight countries, out of a total 14,413 cases of infection.

15 November 2014

Algerian President Bouteflika 'hospitalised in France' Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 77, has been admitted to hospital in the southeastern French town of Grenoble, a French government source told AFP.

15 November 2014

Ghanaian journalist wins first African Fact-Checking Awards Video journalist Edem Srem and his team from MultiTvWorld in Ghana won the first-ever African Fact-Checking Awards.

15 November 2014

7.3-magnitude quake in Indonesia, tsunami warning issued A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the Maluku Islands in eastern Indonesia, sparking a tsunami warning for areas up to 300 kilometres (185 miles) away.

15 November 2014

Historic photos of dead Che Guevara resurface in Spain Historic photographs of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara taken by an AFP photographer shortly after his execution have come to light in a small Spanish town.

15 November 2014

Oscar buzz swirls around MLK film 'Selma' "Selma," a powerful new film about civil rights icon Martin Luther King, triumphed at its premiere in Los Angeles this week.

15 November 2014

Merkel heads for pub in Brisbane Most of the world's powerhouse leaders arriving in Brisbane for the G20 summit to relax at their luxury hotels, but not Angela Merkel who opted for the pub.

15 November 2014

Hungary PM dismisses US corruption claims Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban dismissed corruption claims cited by Washington as the reason for US entry bans on six senior Hungarian officials.

15 November 2014

Obesity costs more than $8 bn in lost US productivity: study Obesity among workers in the United States is costing the nation $8.65 billion a year in lost productivity, according to a study released.

15 November 2014