A rescue operation is under way after a boat carrying hundreds of asylum seekers sinks off the Indonesian island of Java.

Rescuers are continuing to search for survivors after floods killed more than 400 people and left many others missing in the southern Philippines.

The first 600 pre-booked visitors start viewing the giant pandas at Edinburgh Zoo as they go on public display for the first time.

The last convoy of US troops to leave Iraq crosses the border into Kuwait, nearly nine years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

Two people die and more than 50 are missing after an oil drilling rig capsizes and sinks under tow in freezing seas in the Russian far east.

One person is shot dead and 11 injured in clashes with police in western Kazakhstan after protesters try to block a railway line, prosecutors say.

Protesters stone security forces in Cairo as the death toll for three days of anti-military unrest in the Egyptian capital reaches 10.

Vaclav Havel, the Czech Republic's first president after the Velvet Revolution against communist rule, dies at the age of 75.