Bermuda and other British overseas territories with financial centres have signed agreements on sharing tax information, the Treasury announces.

The European Central Bank is widely expected to cut interest rates later, as it seeks to boost growth amid ongoing fears for the eurozone economy.

Millions of Bangladeshi garment workers return to work after days of unrest following the deadly collapse of a factory near the capital, Dhaka.

Six people, including a young child, are killed in southern Thailand after a gun attack at a village shop, police say.

Indian PM Manmohan Singh calls the killing of convicted spy Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani jail "barbaric", and demands justice.

Saudi Arabia says five people have died from a Sars-like virus in the east of the country and two more are seriously ill.

Police in Athens stop the far-right Golden Dawn party from handing out free food to Greeks only on the city's main square.

Nearly 260,000 people, half of them children, died during the famine that hit Somalia from 2010 to 2012, a report says.