An Israeli policeman has been stabbed but unhurt and his assailant shot dead in the latest such attack in Jerusalem.

The mayor of a town in western Guatemala is lynched by a group of residents who accused him of ordering an attack on his political rival.

The Turkish air force pounds Kurdish militants as the country mourns for nearly 100 people killed in a bomb attack in the capital, Ankara.

Mexico's attorney general makes public the file on last year's disappearance of 43 student teachers who clashed with the police.

President Vladimir Putin defends Russia's military operations in Syria, saying the aim is to "stabilise the legitimate authority" of Bashar al-Assad.

Austria's Social Democrats hold onto power in the capital Vienna, fighting off a challenge by the far-right Freedom Party in municipal polls.

Voting begins in crucial elections in India's Bihar state, which will once again test Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's popularity.

A woman who said she was raped at Australia's asylum seeker detention centre on Nauru arrives in Australia for an abortion, after public pressure.