Protests continue in Egypt over the conduct of the parliamentary elections held on Sunday, which the opposition claims were marred by fraud.

Brazilian police and troops find more than 30 tonnes of marijuana after storming a major drug trafficker stronghold in Rio de Janeiro's slums.

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen says no one will be punished for a festival stampede in which 351 people died.

The Japanese island of Okinawa re-elects its governor, Hirokazu Nakaima, who backs the removal of a controversial US base.

US police say a fire at an Islamic centre in Oregon was arson, suggesting it was in response to a recent foiled car bomb attack by a Somali-born teenager.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak describes as an "inhumane" crime" the North's deadly shelling of a Southern island last Tuesday.

Three teenage boys who survived at least 50 days adrift in the Pacific are brought to Fiji after their rescue.

Veteran comic actor Leslie Nielsen, star of Airplane! and The Naked Gun, has died at the age of 84, of complications from pneumonia.