Firefighters from across Auckland were this afternoon battling a "substantial'' factory fire on Te Atatu Peninsula.

Authorities say a Kansas man accused of planning to detonate a car bomb at the Wichita airport has been arrested.

From the Nairobi shopping mall massacre, to the latest deadly Christian-Mulsim clashes in Central African Republic, 2013 has been marked by a surge in Islamist violence in Africa.

Guests gathered on Sunday in a huge tent at the family compound of Nelson Mandela to attend the funeral ceremony for the anti-apartheid leader.