Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki visits Washington for talks with President Barack Obama, as the US intervention in Iraq comes to an end.

President Hu Jintao promises to boost imports on tenth anniversary of China's entry into the World Trade Organization.

A group of Chinese fishermen stab two South Korean coast guards, killing one, after they are stopped for illegal fishing, Seoul officials say.

The king of Bahrain makes a visit to the UK for talks with Prime Minister David Cameron, in an effort to improve relations following the Arab Spring.

A BBC World Service survey covering 11,000 people in 23 countries found unemployment was the world's fastest-rising worry.

The city of Delhi marks 100 years as India's capital, but the celebrations are low-key.

A senior Australian health official is arrested after allegedly embezzling $11m in just one week in one of the country's biggest fraud cases.

Actor Christian Bale says the latest film he stars in, portraying the massacre of Chinese by Japan's imperial army in Nanjing, is not propaganda.