Human Rights chief Navi Pillay says the UN investigation into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka will go ahead despite its team being denied visas.

The US Navy confirms a wreck on the bottom of the Java sea is the USS Houston, sunk by the Japanese in World War Two with as many as 700 men aboard.

Clashes are reported in the centre of the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk as government forces try to close in on rebel strongholds.

A man is killed by a giant saltwater crocodile as he fished with his wife in northern Australia - the fourth fatal attack this year.

India cancels a meeting with Pakistan, after Pakistan's envoy consults Kashmiri separatist leaders.

US police and protesters clash again in Ferguson, Missouri, as President Barack Obama urges calm over the fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager.

Pope Francis lifts the ban on the beatification of murdered Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, imposed over his suspected Marxist views.

The Republic of Ireland's health service is to set up an internal review of the care provided to a "suicidal" woman who gave birth by caesarean section after being refused an abortion.