World News Update, what you need to know

A court in Italy has convicted a policeman of raping an Australian teenager and other young women he lured to his home through a couch-surfing website.

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DUNCAN, Oklahoma - The defence lawyer for 17-year-old Chancey Luna has told an Oklahoma jury that Australian baseball player Chris Lane was accidentally shot.

JAKARTA - Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg has reportedly asked Indonesia's President Joko Widodo to halt the executions of Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan.

ROME, April 14 AFP - Up to 400 illegal migrants trying to reach Europe have died after their boat capsized off the Libyan coast, say survivors who were saved and brought to Italy.

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has agreed to take Cuba off a list of state sponsors of terrorism, the White House says.

JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed Israel's "grave concerns" over Moscow's decision to lift a ban on supplying Iran with sophisticated S-300 air defence missile systems.

ABUJA - Nigeria and the world have marked the first anniversary of Boko Haram's abduction of 219 schoolgirls, with protest marches, candlelight vigils and pledges of solidarity.