Japan is to ease its self-imposed arms export ban for the first time in almost 50 years, in a move likely to worry China.

Musician Frankie Knuckles, known as the Godfather of House music, dies aged 59.

China charges ex-general Gu Junshan, who is accused of amassing several lavish properties, with corruption and abuse of power, state media report.

The first group of Fukushima evacuees return to their homes inside the exclusion zone, three years after the nuclear disaster.

Many commuters in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, walk to work as most minibuses have not been fitted in time with new digital speed monitors.

At 168 metres high, what is being billed as the world's tallest Ferris wheel opens in Las Vegas.

A radical Muslim cleric in Kenya, accused by the UN of recruiting for Somali militants, is shot dead outside Mombasa, police and witnesses say.

Talks are under way on the status of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, in an effort to save Middle East peace talks, the White House says.