A North Carolina judge has ruled a man accused of killing three Muslim students can face the death penalty.

The DR Congo government is urged to investigate more than 400 bodies found in an unmarked burial ground in the capital Kinshasa.

Iraqi forensic experts begin exhuming 12 suspected mass graves of Iraqi soldiers killed by Islamic State militants in June 2014.

Lawyers for two Australian drug smugglers on death row in Indonesia say they will continue to fight for them, after losing an legal challenge.

Malaysia passes a controversial anti-terrorism bill, reintroducing detention without trial, which it says is needed to tackle Islamic extremism.

Eight Iranian border guards have been killed in a clash with gunmen in a province near Pakistan, Iranian media say.

The former mayor of Nanjing, Ji Jianye, is sentenced to 15 years in jail for corruption, the latest official felled by China's crackdown.

An Australian court orders internet service providers to hand over details of customers accused of illegally downloading a US movie.