Libya's new interim assembly elects moderate Islamist Mohammed Magarief as its head, after people celebrate the handover of power from the NTC.

Five people go on trial in central China for illegal organ trading and intentional injury, after a student sold his kidney to buy an iPad and iPhone.

Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi is expected to be named the new UN envoy for Syria, diplomats say, a week after the resignation of Kofi Annan.

Four Chinese policeman are to go on trial accused of covering up the murder of Briton Neil Heywood, a day after the wife of a politician was tried for the killing.

Ghana holds the funeral of President John Atta Mills, who died in July, with African heads of state and Hillary Clinton among the mourners.

China and Taiwan have signed an investment protection deal in a bid to allay fears over Taiwanese firms of doing business in China.

Mexico extradites to the US Sandra Avila, known as the Queen of the Pacific, accused of helping build up the powerful Sinaloa drugs cartel in the 1990s.

South Korea's president is expected to visit islands also claimed by Japan, in a move set to raise diplomatic tensions between the two nations.