Portugal Guterres cleared to face the final UN hurdle Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is a step closer to being officially invested as the next UN Secretary General after receving the official recommendation of the Security Council. 06/10/2016
France UKIP MEP collapses outside EU parliament Steven Woolfe, the favourite to become the next leader of UKIP, is in in hospital after collapsing outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg. 06/10/2016
Colombia Colombian president meets rival to discuss FARC deal Juan Manuel Santos and his opposition rival Alvaro Uribe met on Wednesday in a bid to resolve their differences over a peace deal with Marxist FARC rebels. 06/10/2016
Poland Polish parliament rejects proposal for near-total ban on abortion Mass street protests have forced a government rethink. An estimated 100,000 women dressed in black and took to the streets throughout Poland on Monday. 06/10/2016
World News Hundreds of migrants arrive in Sicily Dry land is a welcome sight after being left adrift in flimsy boats in the open sea. The Italian coastguard says they carried out six separate rescue operations on Wednesday. 11,000 were rescued on Mo 06/10/2016
World News Matthew powers towards Bahamas and Florida After battering Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Hurricane Matthew, the fiercest Caribbean storm in almost a decade, is powering towards the Bahamas and Florida. 05/10/2016
Italy Almost 11,000 saved in Mediterranean in two days More than 4,650 migrants were saved on Tuesday off the coast of Libya. It brings the total rescued in the last 48 hours to nearly 11,000. Three babies were also born on board ship. 05/10/2016
Sweden Mini machines win 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry Scottish, French and Dutch-born trio Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L Feringa will share the 8m Swedish Kronor prize. 05/10/2016
Syria Renewed air strikes pound province of Aleppo Pro-government media say the Syrian army is pressing ahead in a major campaign, supported by Iranian-backed militias and Russian air power. 05/10/2016
United Kingdom UKIP leader resigns after only 18 days Diane James has resigned as the leader of the pro-Brexit UK political party, UKIP, citing professional and personal reasons. 05/10/2016
Sweden How a bun, a bagel and a pretzel explain the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics A trio of British-born scientists has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their discoveries about strange or unusual forms of matter - and it can be explained by baking. 04/10/2016
Syria ISIL targets Kurdish wedding in Syria At least 22 people were killed and dozens wounded when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest at a Kurdish wedding in the city of Hasakah. 04/10/2016
Turkey Turkey suspends more than 12,000 police officers Officials say it is in connection with suspected links with the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who denies claims he masterminded a failed coup in Turkey in July. 04/10/2016
Haiti Hurricane Matthew batters the Caribbean Haiti, Cuba and Jamaica are bracing for "catastrophic" floods and mudslides that forecasters fear will be triggered by the storm's 230 kph winds and a metre of rainfall. 04/10/2016
USA How did baker's yeast lead to the Nobel Prize for Medicine? Japanese researcher Yoshinori Ohsumi has won the Nobel Prize for physiology and Medicine for discovering the process of autophagy. But what is it and why is it important for all of us? 03/10/2016
Colombia Work to restart on Colombia's landmark FARC deal Voters rejected the landmark deal as too lenient on the rebels in a popular vote on Sunday. The shock result has plunged the country into uncertainty. 03/10/2016
Colombia Back to the drawing board in Bogota Work will begin on Monday to revive a plan to end the 52-year conflict between the Colombian government and the country's Marxist FARC guerrillas 03/10/2016
Jamaica The Caribbean braces itself for Matthew It is the stongest storm to menace the Caribbean since 2007 and is expected to make landfall near southwestern Haiti and Jamaica late on Monday. 03/10/2016
Mexico At least five soldiers killed in Mexico ambush The local prosecutor's office says the attack took place in the early morning on the edge of the city of Culiacan in the home state of the Sinaloa cartel. 30/09/2016
Brazil Hundreds still at large following Brazil jail-break The inmates fled from the Jardinopolis prison, around 160 kilometres northwest of Sao Paulo, Brazil's second city. Officials say they had set fire to several cells in one wing of the prison during a r 30/09/2016