The US is to partially lift its decades-old arms embargo on providing lethal military support to Vietnam, the state department announces.

The Australian cabinet gives its approval for fighter jets to join US-led air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq.

A US judge orders the government to release videotapes depicting a Guantanamo Bay prisoner on hunger strike being force-fed.

JP Morgan says it suffered a massive cyber attack affecting 76 million private and seven million business customers in the US.

North Korea is not planning any missile or nuclear tests, the country's envoy to the UN in Geneva, So Se Pyong, is quoted as saying.

Thai Police say two Burmese men have apparently confessed to killing British tourists Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on Koh Tao island.

Police forces are struggling to cope with the mountain of child abuse images they have to deal with, according to children's charity the NSPCC.

The parents of murdered bride Anni Dewani tell the BBC they are desperate for answers ahead of the trial of their son-in-law in South Africa.