Indian airlines will not to comply with the European Union's (EU) carbon taxation scheme, according to civil aviation minister Ajit Singh.

Investors are using web-based tracker tools to put their money into online scams in the hope of cashing out before the schemes collapse, research suggests.

China pledges to end the widespread practice of taking organs from executed prisoners within the next five years, state media report.

Lawyers representing a Nigerian fishing community take oil firm Shell to court in London over alleged unpaid compensation for recent oil spills.

At least 17 terror suspects, including al-Qaeda members, escape from a jail in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.

Somali ex-warlord Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed - the first president of the country's interim government - dies aged 77 in the United Arab Emirates.

Burma's authorities postpone 1 April by-elections in the northern state of Kachin, where fighting with ethnic rebels resumed last year.

At least five people are killed in a suicide bomb attack in a volatile tribal area of north-west Pakistan.