Social networking and scrapbooking website Pinterest has seen its value jump by more than 50% to $3.8bn (£2.3bn) following its latest round of fundraising.

A plane fighting bushfires in Australia's New South Wales crashes, killing its pilot, as the military faces criticism for starting one of the major fires.

Two Chinese children are killed and four others injured when a wall at their school collapses on top of them in Yunnan province.

Yaya Toure calls on Uefa to act on racist chanting after claiming he was targeted during Manchester City's 2-1 win at CSKA Moscow.

Germany summons the US ambassador in Berlin over claims that the US monitored German Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone.

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi tells the BBC that a "climate of fear" is exacerbating tensions between Muslims and Buddhists.

Russia's chief sanitary inspector Gennady Onishchenko, who banned some foreign food and drink, is given a new job.

A Chinese newspaper publishes a front-page plea - for the second time in two days - for the release of one of its journalists being held by police.