Indonesian authorities say a group of about 50 asylum seekers are safe, after being rescued from a boat which had run into trouble in waters south of Java as it made its way to Australia.
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TACLOBAN - Gunfire has forced the cancellation of a mass burial in the typhoon-ravaged Philippines as authorities struggle to dispose of the dead, while anger among survivors at the slow trickle of aid has turned deadly.
COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's military have stopped scores of ethnic Tamil protesters from entering the capital before a Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting summit set to start on Friday.
WASHINGTON DC - Brazil has called an unscheduled meeting of the International Monetary Fund executive board to discuss reports that the United States spied on the institution, the country's IMF representative says.
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NAIROBI - Detectives scouring Kenya's Westgate shopping mall after September's massacre by Islamist gunmen have completed on-site investigations, the government says.
OTTAWA - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford had warned in his first city council grilling since admitting he smoked crack that there may be more revelations to come in the scandal.
BAGHDAD - Violence across Iraq has left at least 27 people dead as worshippers massed in a shrine city on the eve of major commemoration rituals often targeted by militants.
KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait has discovered its first case of the MERS coronavirus for a citizen who is in "critical condition," the health ministry says.
FRANKFURT - The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) says it will allow passengers to use a range of mobile electronic devices in flight with very few restrictions.
MIAMI - A former Black Panther accused of hijacking a plane in 1984 has pleaded not guilty in a US federal court, having returned to the country after nearly three decades in Cuba.
MADRID - A Spanish court has acquitted crew members and a top maritime official of causing a massive oil spill in 2002, in what was one of Europe's worst environmental disasters.
