Tensions escalate in northern Sri Lanka as Tamil people try to prevent the Sinhalese-dominated army from taking over their land.

A hacker has attacked a South African police website, downloading the details of whistleblowers who reported crime, an official says.

International mining companies operating in Mozambique are failing in their obligation to people displaced by coal mining, says Human Rights Watch.

A strong earthquake strikes off the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's far east, but an initial tsunami warning issued by the authorities is lifted.

A necklace reportedly worth 1.9m euros (£1.6m) is stolen during the Cannes film festival, the second such theft to hit this year's event.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe heads to Burma for economic talks - in the first visit by a Japanese PM since 1977.

China has offered soldiers to the new UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, UN officials say.

Two South Korean women forced into sexual slavery in WWII cancel a meeting with Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, citing fears of "political exploitation".