A separatist group says it has formally submitted more than 300,000 signatures to try to trigger a referendum on the province of Alberta leaving Canada.
Romania's pro-European coalition government has collapsed, after MPs voted against Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan, plunging the country into further political turmoil.
In a resounding victory Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nationalist Hindu party has wrested control of the key state of West Bengal.
At least 26 people are dead and 61 have been injured after an explosion at a fireworks factory in China.
Twenty-one people are dead and 61 have been injured after an explosion at a fireworks factory in China.
Two people were killed after a car ploughed into a crowd in the eastern German city of Leipzig on Monday afternoon.
