Protests against war and rising living costs took place in major ​Italian cities.

Albanian riot police used tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets to disperse protesters who ​threw rocks at officers .

Belgian police used tear gas and pepper spray as ​they clashed in Brussels on Saturday with anti-government ‌demonstrators calling for better conditions in the education system, Reuters witnesses and Belgian media reported.

Disappointed tourists poked their heads through ​the Louvre’s locked gates on Saturday, shut off from the Mona Lisa as galleries ‌and museums across Paris closed as a precaution ahead of fresh demonstrations.

Seven people were killed when gunmen opened fire ​during a funeral at a church in Jordan.

Kenya has recorded a second Ebola death.

Genomic ​analysis of Nigeria’s only confirmed Ebola case ‌shows the virus is closely related to the strain detected in Kenya’s index case

An earthquake of magnitude 7 struck China’s southwestern region of Tibet at around 10:33 p.m. (1433 ​GMT) on Thursday, killing 16 people and injuring 32 others, state ‌news agency Xinhua reported, citing Nagqu City’s emergency management bureau.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for the country’s ​army companies to be turned into ‌elite, self-sufficient combat units during a two-day meeting of company commanders in Pyongyang, state media ​KCNA said on Saturday.

The US Justice Department on Thursday sued to preemptively block Alaska from certifying the results of its US Senate race if the Republican ‌incumbent candidate loses by a narrow margin, saying voters could be confused because two Republicans on the ballot have almost identical names.

An Australian television reporter who rescued a man from a car as it was engulfed ​by floodwaters said on Friday it was terrifying to ‌watch someone almost drown but added “there are few better feelings” than saving a person’s life.

France reported the first human case of the Shamonda virus.