Andrew Holness is sworn in as Jamaica's youngest-ever PM and the first to be born after independence, after the resignation of Bruce Golding.

A grenade attack on a nightclub in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, injures 14 people, say police.

A Lufthansa flight makes an unscheduled landing in Zurich because of a strange smell coming from the kitchen of the aircraft.

Tunisia counts votes in the first free election of the Arab Spring, nine months after the fall of former President Ben Ali.

A single malt distilled in one of Scotland's most remote distilleries is named the world's best whisky by a leading expert.

Floodwaters creep further into the Thai capital, Bangkok, with residents of six more districts told to move to higher ground.

China jails officials from the People's Bank of China and National Bureau of Statistics for leaking economic data.

China's Premier Wen Jiabao says the country must control food and property inflation, in order to ensure social stability.