Controversial pro-Israel ads are to appear next week in New York subway stations, after city transport officials failed to block the posters.

Demonstrators outside the US embassy in Islamabad begin to disperse peacefully, after clashes earlier at a protest over an anti-Islam film.

A Syrian warplane attacks a petrol station in the north-east of the country, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens more, opposition activists say.

Georgia's Interior Minister Bacho Akhalaia steps down amid uproar over video footage showing prison guards abusing inmates.

A US man diagnosed with "popcorn lung" after inhaling too much of the artificial butter smell of microwave popcorn, has won a $7.2m (£4.4m) verdict.

Workers are due to return to South Africa's Marikana platinum mine, which was the scene of protests in which 44 died, following a deal on pay.

India's opposition parties and trade unions stage a strike over government plans to open the retail sector to global supermarket chains and other reforms.

Chunlai Yang, a former engineer for CME Group, the largest US futures exchange operator, admits to stealing trade secrets from the firm to aid a Chinese rival.