Women and children at a migrant camp outside the French port city of Calais are to be given heated tents by the end of the week, officials say.

Slovenia says it has allowed most of the 5,000 people who were stranded in wet and muddy conditions on its border with Croatia in the country.

Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams says his new album, "Get Up," is the ideal follow-up record to his iconic "Reckless" album of 30 years ago.

President Barack Obama confirms plans to extend the US military presence in Afghanistan beyond 2016, in a shift in policy.

Five people, including two RAF personnel, have been killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon is to pay compensation for those killed and injured in a US strike on an MSF hospital in northern Afghanistan.

US President Barack Obama apologises to the president of aid agency Medecins San Frontieres (MSF) for a bombing that killed at least 22 in the Afghan city of Kunduz.

The US commander of international forces in Afghanistan says an air strike on a hospital in the northern city of Kunduz was a mistake.

President Barack Obama says the US has launched a "full investigation" into air strikes that killed 19 people at an MSF-run Afghan hospital.

Afghanistan have appointed Inzamam-ul-Haq, the former Pakistan captain, as their head coach.

Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres says three of its staff are killed when its clinic in the Afghan city of Kunduz was hit by sustained bombing.

Fierce fighting is continuing between Afghan forces and the Taliban in parts of Afghanistan's northern city of Kunduz, despite government claims that it had regained control of the city.

At least 11 people have died after a US Hercules aircraft crashed at an airport in Afghanistan, the US military says.

Afghan officials say they have regained control of key areas of the northern city of Kunduz from the Taliban.

Taliban fighters seize a military hilltop site in Kunduz, tightening their grip on the northern Afghan city.

At least nine people are killed in a militant attack on a sports match in Afghanistan's turbulent eastern Paktika province.

Splits within the EU on the relocation of 120,000 migrants are further exposed as leaders gather for an emergency meeting in Brussels.

European Union ministers are to meet to try to resolve a dispute over how to relocate 120,000 asylum seekers who have recently arrived in Europe.

The United States will increase the number of refugees it takes in by 15,000 over each of the next two years, bringing the total to 100,000 by 2017, US Secretary of State John Kerry says.

Austria saw the arrival of at least 10,000 migrants, amid bitter rows among EU nations on how to handle the growing crisis.