Colombian football star James Rodriguez hugged a fan who invaded the pitch as he was presented as a new player for Real Madrid.

Lyse Doucet reports on the hardship of life in Gaza and the importance of Rafah Crossing, on the Gaza Egypt border.

Relatives of soldiers killed in Israel in the on-going fighting with Palestinians have spoken to the BBC as the UN secretary-general calls for an end to the conflict.

The wrecked Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia will be towed to its home port Genoa, where it will then be scrapped.

The BBC's Paul Adams reports from Gaza City where rescue workers try to retrieve bodies from buildings brought down by missile strikes.

Hundreds of flowers have been laid outside Schiphol airport in Amsterdam in remembrance of the victims of the Malaysian airliner which crashed in Ukraine.

Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo has been declared the winner of Indonesia's hotly-contested presidential election.

A train carrying victims of the MH17 crash has arrived in the city of Kharkiv. Meanwhile there are claims the plane wreckage has been interfered with.

OSCE monitors at the site of the MH17 crash say that pieces of the plane have been cut into or changed - Natalia Antelava reports from the scene.

Indonesia's next president faces challenges including cutting the country's controversial fuel subsidies.

BBC News hears from a 17-year-old in Zambia who was forced into marriage against her will.

Prince George celebrates his first birthday on Tuesday and to mark the occasion two new pictures have been released by Kensington Palace.

Israel's defence minister says that the offensive in Gaza will continue 'as long as necessary to stop the Hamas rocket attacks.

A Ukrainian train with bodies from the Malaysia Airlines plane crash heads for the eastern city of Kharkiv from rebel-held areas amid worsening fighting.

At least five people have been killed and 70 injured by an Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza, Palestinians say.

Israel sent ground troops into Gaza on Thursday, saying the ground operation is necessary to target Hamas' network of tunnels.

Civilian drones are being tested across Africa's game reserves in a hi-tech battle with poachers threatening the continent's wildlife tourism industry.

Fergal Keane reports from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine where heavy fighting has been heard and "people are panicking".

Paul Adams reports from the almost deserted streets of Sha'af in Gaza where rockets are "coming in all the time".

A BBC reporter at the site of the MH17 crash was handed passengers' documents, as fears mount that vital evidence will be lost.