The US urges "cooler heads to prevail" as tension intensifies between China and Japan in a row over disputed islands in the East China Sea.

Hundreds of miners in Bolivia are blocking key access roads to the country's main city, La Paz, to press the government to allow them to work a lucrative mine.

Officials say the number of people killed in a fire at a garment factory in the Pakistan city of Karachi has risen to 80.

A Chilean court confirms findings that President Salvador Allende killed himself, as demonstrators mark the anniversary of the 1973 coup that toppled him.

US TV network NBC defends its decision not to observe a moment of silence on Tuesday marking the 9/11 anniversary and run a piece on a reality TV star instead.

A former US biologist pleads guilty to murdering three colleagues and wounding three others in a 2010 shooting rampage at a faculty meeting.

Two men are found trying to board a flight in India with a rare primate species hidden in their underwear.

Militias storm the US consulate in Benghazi over a US film allegedly insulting Prophet Muhammad, in an apparent repeat of an earlier incident in Cairo.