Facebook is to allow more organisations to join its free mobile data scheme, but net neutrality campaigners remain opposed.

Israel's president says Ethiopian Israelis' protests against alleged discrimination "revealed an open and raw wound" at the heart of Israeli society.

A suicide bomber blows himself up in the centre of the Syrian capital, Damascus, in an attack apparently aimed at the army's logistics division.

A plainclothes policeman dies two days after he was shot in the head while attempting to question a man in the New York borough of Queens.

Hundreds of Ethiopian Jews protest against police brutality and racism in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, leading to violent clashes.

The Australian government will not be able to keep its promise to balance its budget, largely because of a plunge in commodity prices, say Deloitte.

Indian police say eight soldiers have been ambushed and killed by rebels, one of whom also died, in the north-eastern state of Nagaland.

The head of Taiwan's ruling party meets Chinese President Xi Jinping, the highest level-talks between the two sides in six years.