Israel's Interior Minister Silvan Shalom steps down after a series of sexual harassment allegations.

Slovenians reject in a referendum a law which would allow same-sex marriage and same-sex couples to adopt children.

The centre of another district in the southern Afghan province of Helmand has fallen to the Taliban, officials say.

Airport ground workers in Chile end a four-day strike that has left thousands of people stranded in the busy run-up to Christmas.

The killing of minorities by so-called Islamic State should be recognised as genocide, more than 60 parliamentarians say in a letter to David Cameron.

At least one person has died with 36 injured after a car ran down pedestrians in front of a hotel in Las Vegas, officials say.

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini will learn if they are banned from football as Fifa's ethics judge delivers verdicts on Monday.

Troubled Japanese conglomerate Toshiba says it will report a record $4.5bn annual loss and cut nearly 7,000 jobs as it carries out a restructuring.