Some 9.3 million people in Syria - or about 40% of the population - now need outside assistance, UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos says.

The micro-blogging company Twitter increases its estimate of its shares' value and demand leads it to end the offer a day early.

India is preparing to launch a robotic spacecraft towards the Red Planet - a first for the South Asian country.

Files dating back to military rule in Argentina from 1976 to 1983 are found in an abandoned wing of the Air Force headquarters in Buenos Aires.

Bangladesh's wage board has proposed raising the minimum salary for garment industry workers by 77% to 5,300 takas ($68; £42) a month.

Part of a giant platypus fossil, dubbed platypus-zilla, is unearthed in Australia, scientists report.

The US Senate takes a first step toward passage of a major gay rights bill, nearly two decades after similar anti-discrimination legislation stalled.

North Korea reveals one of its warships sank last month, killing a number of sailors, in a rare admission of military failure.