Andy Murray swept into the semi-finals of the ATP Tour Finals as the world number three defeated France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-2, 7-6 (7/3).
Sri Lankan troops have found 11 bodies of convicts raising the death toll in an overnight prison riot in the capital to 27, prisons minister said.
US President Barack Obama claimed he has a mandate to hike taxes on the rich, firing his first post-election shot at Republicans.
As winter approaches, many sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco are desperate to reach Spanish shores and start a new life in Europe.
In Afghanistan, where US troops are fighting in America’s longest conflict, the re-election of President Barack Obama was met with a war-weary shrug.
Iran has executed 10 drug traffickers in a prison in Tehran, says a statement on the website of the prosecutor’s office.
Police in Zimbabwe have detained three staffers from a human rights group in a crackdown on non-governmental organisations, say lawyers.
Parents in education-obsessed South Korea are prepared to do whatever it takes to make sure their children attend foreigner-only schools.
Representatives of the Ansar Dine Islamist group in northern Mali are to meet the lead mediator as plans for military action take shape.
Rights groups urged South Sudan on Monday to put a moratorium on the country’s executions because of flaws in its legal system.