Police in Nepal remove protesters from a key border checkpoint to allow more than 200 vehicles stranded to cross over to India.

Turkey's president says the world must respect election results that saw his Justice and Development Party (AKP) regain its majority.

China's top family planning body warns couples and officials that they must continue to obey the country's one-child policy until the law changes in March.

Japan and South Korea agree to accelerate talks to resolve a row about Korean women forced to work in Japanese brothels during World War Two.

Four fishermen who say they had been adrift for 30 days after running out of fuel while fishing in Ecuadorean waters are rescued off the coast of Mexico.

A rare tropical cyclone hits the remote Yemeni island of Socotra, killing at least one person before heading towards the Yemeni mainland.

Two French pilots who fled the Dominican Republic last week to escape a lengthy jail term for drug trafficking are arrested in France.

Iran begins to decommission uranium enrichment centrifuges as part of a nuclear deal agreed with world powers in July, its nuclear chief announces.