U.S. President Barack Obama will nominate Federal Reserve vice-chair Janet Yellen to be the next head of the U.S. central bank on Wednesday.

Police in Mexico City release unharmed the four members of Spanish band Delorean, who had been seized on Sunday in a "virtual kidnapping".

The people of oil-rich Azerbaijan are voting in an election in which the incumbent President, Ilham Aliyev is expected to win a third term.

A letter emerges containing an eyewitness account of the capture of Australian outlaw Ned Kelly in the 1880 Glenrowan shoot-out.

Talks between authorities and striking power workers in India's southern Andhra Pradesh state fail, resulting in a sixth day of blackouts.

At least 60 Tibetans were injured after Chinese police fired into a crowd of protesters, rights group Free Tibet and US-based Radio Free Asia report.

A Tibetan monk who founded the first Buddhist monastery in the UK has been killed in south west China.

Samsung Electronics, the world's best-selling smartphone maker, launches a handset with a curved display screen.