The Trump administration issues a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline, reversing the Obama administration's position and all but ending a long-fought campaign to stop the project on environmental grounds.

The top United Nations human rights body will send an international fact-finding mission to investigate widespread allegations of killings, rape and torture by security forces against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

Egypt's 88-year-old former president walks free after being cleared of the final murder charges against him this month, in a case featuring a litany of charges ranging from corruption to the killing of protesters.

British police say they have made two further significant arrests in the investigation into the attacks on Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament in London.

Bones found near the wreckage of a South Korean ferry belonged to animals, not missing passengers from the ship's 2014 sinking in which 304 people died, the Government announces.