A suicide attacker is believed to have targeted a prominent Afghan politician just as Nato formally hands over command of security responsibilities to Afghan forces.

 

As many as 200,000 people have marched through the streets of Brazil's biggest cities, as protests over rising public transport costs and the expense of staging the 2014 World Cup have spread.

 

Tax, trade and transparency are expected to dominate discussions on the second day of a summit of the G8 group of leading industrialised nations.

 

The death toll from flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rain in northern India has passed 60, state-run broadcaster Doordarshan says.

 

Piracy off the coast of West Africa has now overtaken Somali piracy, a report by the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) and other seafarers' groups says.

 

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of former leader Libyan Col Muammar Gaddafi, will be tried in August, the prosecutor's office has announced.

 

Turkey's government has said it could use the military to end nearly three weeks of unrest by protesters in Istanbul and other cities.

 

Iran is ready to show more transparency on its nuclear programme, says President-elect Hassan Rouhani.