Pakistani police are suspended after allegedly forcing a man and a woman to parade naked in public as a punishment for extra-marital sex.

Serbia's parliament adopts a new central bank law criticised by the EU and IMF, who say it strips away the bank's independence.

A suspected suicide bomber kills at least 25 people in an attack on a funeral in the southern Yemeni province of Abyan.

Honduran radio journalist Jose Chinchilla asks the US to grant him and his family asylum after they are apparently threatened and attacked.

Heavy fighting continues in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, as the government claims to have taken control of all of the capital Damascus.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica sees off the challenge of American Carmelita Jeter to retain her Olympic 100m title in London.

Venezuela's electoral commission is asking voters in some areas to head to the polls on Sunday for a practice run ahead of October's election.

Great Britain are knocked out of the Olympic football tournament with a quarter-final defeat to South Korea on penalties.