Nato Should Back Offensive Against Kurds, Says Turkey

The United States and other allies should re-evaluate their NATO membership if they objected to Turkey's actions, says the Head of the Turkish Delegation to Nato's Parliamentary Assembly, Ahmet Berat Çonkar.

The US government shutdown is to continue into the working week after the senate postponed a vote on a stop-gap spending bill.

Liberia will see a historic changing of the guard, when Africa's first elected female head of state - Ellen Sirleaf Johnson - makes way for the only African to be voted world footballer of the year - the new President George Weah.