Former coal CEO Don Blankenship is sentenced to prison for his role in a West Virginia mine explosion that killed 29 men in 2010.

Egyptian officials are to brief Italian counterparts in Rome on progress in an investigation into the brutal Cairo murder of student Giulio Regeni.

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir tells the BBC he will step down in 2020 when his current term ends, and denies recent reports of abuses in Darfur.

A Bangladeshi law student who expressed secular views online is killed in the capital Dhaka, after a string of murders by Islamist extremists.

The US state of Florida repeals a rarely enforced law that barred unmarried couples from living together.

The entire board of Malaysia's troubled state fund 1MDB offers to resign, after a parliamentary inquiry found it failed to carry out its responsibilities.

A South African court throws out a bid by the ex-wife of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela to inherit his home in the rural village of Qunu.

Two boys received neck wounds during an opening night performance of Sweeney Todd at a private school in Auckland, New Zealand.