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The fiercest fighting in days shook the Syrian border town of Kobani overnight as Islamic State militants attacked Kurdish fighters with mortars and car bombs, sources in the town and a monitoring group said on Sunday.

In accordance with the Decision of the European Parliament and the EU's Council of Ministers, which sets out the criteria for the European Capital of Culture, Bulgaria and Italy are the two Member States which will share the title in 2019. The final selection in Bulgaria took place in September, with the panel recommending that Plovdiv should be awarded the title.

A UN peacekeeper from Niger on patrol in Gao, Mali.

A scavenger picks through garbage in a low-income neighbourhood of Jakarta, Indonesia.

Separate attacks in Egypt have killed two police officers and wounded nearly a dozen other people.

Islamist militant group Boko Haram is in talks with the Nigerian government to release more than 200 girls abducted six months ago and negotiate a cease-fire to a deadly insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives.

Kurdish forces have begun a second month of defending the northern Syrian border city of Kobani from Islamic State militants, working increasingly with a U.S.-led coalition to push back the ultra-radical group.