The son of Taiwan's former Vice President Lien Chan has been shot in the face while campaigning for local elections, police say.

France is to resume searching for the flight recorders from an Air France jet that crashed in the Atlantic in 2009, killing all 228 people on board.

The European Commission announces a ban on the use of the chemical Bisphenol-A in the manufacture of plastic baby bottles.

South Korea's president names a security aide as defence minister, amid criticism of the government's handling of a North Korean assault.

Residents of the Indian city of Mumbai are to mark two years since gunmen launched terror attacks, killing 166 people.

The company which owns the mine in Chile where 33 men trapped underground for more than two months has agreed to sell its assets to avoid bankruptcy.

Italian students protesting at education cuts target two top tourist attractions, the Tower of Pisa and the Colosseum.

Almost one in every 100 deaths worldwide is linked to breathing in second-hand smoke, according to a major World Health Organization study.