Seven banks, including Citibank, Deutsche Bank and HSBC, are to be questioned in the US for alleged manipulation of the Libor inter-bank lending rate.

The UK has issued a "threat" to enter the Ecuadorian embassy in London to arrest Wikileaks' Julian Assange, Ecuador's foreign minister says.

Armed militants have attacked a Pakistani military air base and are engaged in a fierce firefight with security forces, officials say.

Landslides are responsible for the deaths of up to 10 times as many people worldwide than previously thought, research by a UK university suggests.

Japanese police move a group of activists who landed on disputed islands to Okinawa for questioning, amid a diplomatic row.

A Russian Aeroflot passenger flight from New York to Moscow makes an emergency landing in Iceland after a bomb threat is received.

The trial of a US army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in a shooting spree at an army base is suspended while judges decide whether his beard should be removed.

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church arrives in Poland shortly for a historic visit that may be overshadowed by the Pussy Riot trial in Moscow.