China sets the guide rate for the yuan lower for third consecutive day, in a week which has seen the currency's biggest fall in two decades.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced plans to track foreign homeownership and raised the possibility of eventually enacting limits on buying.

North Carolina State University unveils the first recording of an earlier version of Martin Luther King's historic I Have a Dream speech, delivered to students in 1962.

Huge explosions in an industrial area of the Chinese port city of Tianjin leave at least 44 dead and more than 500 people injured.

More than 50 people are killed in Iraq after a truck bomb targets a crowded Baghdad market, officials say.

A court in India lifts a government ban on Nestle's popular Maggi noodles, but orders fresh tests before the product can go back on sale.

Myanmar's ruling party chief Shwe Mann is ousted from his role, amid a power struggle ahead of landmark general elections in November.

Guinea-Bissau's president dismisses the government following a rift with the prime minister raising fears about a return to instability.