Barnaby Joyce: Australia deputy PM disqualified from office

The Australian government has lost its majority after the country's highest court ruled the deputy prime minister was ineligible for office because of dual citizenship.

The Spanish senate is expected to give the go ahead later to government plans to regain control of the autonomous region of Catalonia.

The official estimate of turnout in Kenya's presidential election re-run suggests that millions of people heeded an opposition call to boycott the poll.