Two young unknown actors are cast in lead roles in the next Star Wars film following open auditions.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu promises to bring to justice the killers of a Palestinian teenager, as air strikes on Gaza kill six Hamas militants.

El Salvador's president has opened his official residence as an art gallery for the "socially excluded" of the country.

Australia acknowledges it returned 41 asylum seekers to the Sri Lankan authorities at sea, raising concerns that it violated international law.

More than 60 women and girls abducted by the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram are reported to have escaped, security sources say.

Britain's Chancellor George Osborne and Foreign Secretary William Hague begin a two-day trip to India looking to open up opportunities for UK firms.

Members of the Cambridge Five spy ring in the 1940s and 50s were seen by their Soviet handlers as hopeless drunks, newly-released files suggest.

Powerful Typhoon Neoguri approaches Japan's Okinawa island chain, packing strong winds and torrential rain.