Hundreds of Bangladeshi garment factory workers capital fall ill after drinking suspected contaminated water in their workplace, officials say.

Malnutrition is responsible for nearly half of all global deaths in children under five, according to new analysis.

The IMF admits mistakes in handling Greece's first bailout, saying its growth forecasts were too optimistic and a debt restructuring should have been considered earlier.

An 84-year-old Florida woman wins the largest unshared jackpot in US lottery history - a prize of $590m (£383m).

The two Koreas agree to discuss a joint industrial zone, weeks after operations were suspended there, after North Korea proposed talks.

Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to return from a trip to North Africa to a country still torn by mass anti-government protests.

Twelve Russians are set to appear in court over clashes at an anti-Vladimir Putin rally, in a case the president's critics call a political show trial.

Police in India arrest three men in connection with Tuesday's gang-rape of a 30-year-old American woman in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh.