Stockholm announces British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel "The Remains of the Day" , has won the 2017 Nobel Literature Prize. The 69-year-old author reacts to the news in London.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, sentenced to 27 years in prison for coup plotting, leaves the DF Star hospital where he went to undergo medical treatments for skin lesions. Bolsonaro's defense team called the sentence "incredibly excessive" and announced he would appeal, "including at the international level." Bolsonaro did not attend the verdict hearings in the capital Brasilia, instead following the proceedings from his residence, where he is under house arrest. IMAGES

Hundreds of pop culture, manga, video game and superhero fans flock to Lagos for the 13th Comic Convention. Some Cosplay contestants spent weeks, or even months, crafting costumes to bring their favourite characters vividly to life.

In this Finnish school, mobile phones are now banned. At Kungsvagens Skola, northeast of Helsinki, teachers collect students' phones in the morning and lock them in a storage room until the end of the school day. "The biggest change is that they talk to each other more. You can see that they have become more sociable," says headteacher Maria Tallberg.

A fire at Place de la Republique in Paris is quickly extinguished by firefighters before law enforcement detain several protesters as they take to the streets in a show of grassroots opposition to President Emmanuel Macron. The demonstrations, led by a loose left-wing collective under the slogan "Block Everything", are a baptism of fire for France's new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, 39, a close ally of Macron and defence minister for the past three years. IMAGES

As Nintendo's iconic Super Mario turns 40, AFP meets the record-breaking Japanese mega-fan Kikai who has accumulated more than 20,000 items of memorabilia of the moustachioed plumber.