India says rumours and text messages that triggered an exodus of migrant workers from the country's south originated in Pakistan.

Two attackers open fire in a mosque in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region of Dagestan, wounding eight people, officials say.

Julian Assange is expected to appear outside London's Ecuadorean embassy to speak about the diplomatic row over him being granted asylum.

Two people are killed in twin car bomb attacks close to security force buildings in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, officials say.

A Sudanese government minister and other officials die as a plane carrying some 30 people crashes in the south of the country, Sudanese TV says.

At least seven policemen are killed in the Russian Caucasus region of Ingushetia in a suicide bombing at a funeral of a colleague, officials say.

US TV host Jay Leno has taken a pay cut to save the jobs of other members of staff working on his late night talk show The Tonight Show.

At least six people have died in Japan and about 100 others have become ill after eating contaminated pickles, health officials say.