Thousands of First Nations Canadians stage protests over treaty disputes and national budget bills they say weaken environmental oversight.

At least 25 people die as a block of flats collapses in Alexandria, Egypt, a day after a fatal train crash near Cairo led to criticism of safety standards.

Thousands of Kurds gather in Istanbul as the bodies of activists shot dead in Paris return, amid reports of a third day of Turkish air strikes on the PKK.

Director Kathryn Bigelow defends the depiction of torture in her latest film Zero Dark Thirty, a dramatisation of the manhunt for Osama Bin Laden, insisting it is "part of the story".

US aviation regulators order the country's airlines to ground Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, after a battery fault on one of the aircraft in Japan.

Mexican athlete Noe Hernandez, who won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, dies two weeks after being shot in a bar.

A man described as Russia's top gangster is shot dead leaving a restaurant in central Moscow, reportedly by a sniper.

Cuban health officials confirm that 51 people have contracted cholera in the capital, Havana, the biggest outbreak there in decades.