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Education campaigner Malala Yousafzai has turned 18, and marked the day by opening a school for Syrian girls in an informal refugee settlement in Lebanon's Beka'a Valley.

The Colombian government issues a joint statement with Farc rebels agreeing to reduce the number of attacks.

There are rumours the production company that makes the Solid Snake games has been disbanded.

Pope Francis celebrates his final Mass in Paraguay urging Christians to reject the logic of selfishness and put hospitality into practice.

An urgent review of all police call handling in Scotland is to be undertaken following the death of two people who lay in a crashed car for three days.

A bomb explosion causes part of the walls of Aleppo's 13th-Century citadel to collapse.

The vice-president of China's highest court is being investigated by the country's anti-corruption agency.

Reports that a historic provisional deal on Iran's nuclear programme could come on Sunday spark a US warning that "major issues" remain.

Atticus Finch, the crusading lawyer of To Kill a Mockingbird, has emerged as "a bigot" in Harper Lee's eagerly awaited 1950s novel Go Set a Watchman.

Typhoon Chan-hom leaves hundreds of thousands of people stranded in China.