Dale Steyn and JP Duminy led South Africa to a two-run win over Group One rivals New Zealand at the World Twenty20 championship.
Lionel Messi’s hat-trick away from home gave Barcelona the victory over Real Madrid in Sunday’s El Clasico.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his armed forces shot down a Syrian military plane after it crosed into Turkish air space.
There’s growing signs the missing Malaysian plane went down in the southern Indian Ocean, as new French satellite images also show possible debris.
With no conclusive evidence of foulplay and doubts whether nations would share military tracking data, investigations appear to be at an impasse.
The US and its G7 allies will gather next week at the Hague to consider a further response to Russia’s attempt to absorb Ukraine’s Crimea region.
Russia’s government has acknowledged for the first time that its economy faces major troubles.
A referendum result shows that 96.77% of voters in Ukraine’s Crimea region have voted to join Russia, according to a government commission.
Fulani gunmen have killed over 100 in attacks in volatile central Nigeria, government officials said.
Chinese human rights activist Cao Shunli, detained in September for staging sit-ins at the country’s foreign ministry, has died in hospital.