Colombian authorities say the head of security for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who was also the right-hand man of the guerrilla group leader, has been killed.

Syrian troops have exchanged fire with Israeli soldiers along the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights.

Damascus said it had attacked an Israeli vehicle that crossed onto its territory, while Israel’s defence ministry said it returned fire after one of its vehicles was hit by shots from Syria.

At the launch of the paper, Salmond stated Scotland could ''more than afford to be independent'' adding,

Rwandan President Paul kagame has denounced the UN’s peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo, saying it has made the situation worse in some cases.

Speaking to the BBC, Kagame said that military action needed to be "properly co-ordinated" with political efforts.

US President Obama has praised the Burmese President Thein Sein, after he became the first Burmese leader to visit the White House since 1966.

Obama stated that Thein Sein had made "genuine efforts" to solve the Burma's ongoing ethnic conflict, a whilst also referring to the country as Myanmar - the name appointed by the country's military rulers, for the first time.

North Korea has been urged to end missile tests by UN Secretary general Ban Ki-moon.

"I hope that North Korea will refrain from such actions," Mr Ban told Russia's RIA Novosti news agency, after missile tests by North Korea on Saturday.

Farc rebels have called for ‘more time’ to be given for peace negotiations to take place with the Colombian government, after 6 months of talks between the warring parties.

The organisation’s lead negotiator Ivan Marque called for ‘more time’ stating,

A senior politician has been shot dead in Karachi the evening before a partial re-run of the general election in Saturday. 

Zahra Shahid Hussain was the vice president of Imran Khan's Pakistan's Movement for Justice party. 

The man, reportedly in his 80s, is the father of Faisal Mekdad, regarded as one of the most powerful voices in the Syrian government, who has repeatedly defended the actions of the regime in numerous media interviews.

Ivorian officials have arrested Amade Oueremi, the leader of a militant group, suspected of carrying out massacres during violence after polls in 2011.

According to human rights groups, Oueremi and his fighters executed hundreds of supporters of the former president Laurent Gbagbo.

Gbagbo himself is currently facing trial for crimes against humanity at The Hague.

The speaker at the Pan-African Parliament, Bethel Amadi, called for the need to secure the Saharawi people's right to self-determination.

Addressing the parliamentary session in South Africa on Tuesday, Amadi said: