North Korea confirms that Chang Song-thaek, a powerful uncle of North Korea's young leader Kim Jong-un, has been dismissed from his post.

A war crimes court in Bangladesh orders prison authorities to hang Islamist leader Abdul Kader Mullah, months after he was sentenced to death.

French soldiers are to start taking weapons from fighters in the Central African Republic from Monday, by force if necessary, the defence minister says.

The American Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel will visit Pakistan on Monday, at a time of tension over US drone strikes.

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra says she will dissolve parliament and call elections, after sustained protests in the capital, Bangkok.

Jaguar Land Rover confirms plans to build a £240m car plant in Brazil capable of producing 24,000 vehicles a year.

The Brazilian major football league ended on Sunday with a violent brawl that seriously injured three people, with two big clubs being relegated.

Aid agencies paid Somalia's al-Shabab militants for access to areas under their control during the 2011 famine, two think tanks say.