Tens of thousands take to the streets in Morocco's largest city, Casablanca, accusing the authorities of failing to deliver promised reforms.

China's most popular Twitter-like service, Weibo, adopts a new contract limiting the types of messages its users can post.

Police officers and celebrities in Rio de Janeiro join some 1,500 residents in a race through the streets of a slum once ruled by drug gangs.

The first commercial cargo ship to visit the space station is attached to the orbiting laboratory by a robotic arm.

The man held over the 1979 vanishing of six-year-old Etan Patz in New York is charged with one count of second-degree murder.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan is to testify before a parliamentary commission into the Fukushima disaster on his handling of the crisis.

The UN says it has evidence that a rebellion in the Democratic Republic of Congo is being fuelled by recruits and support from neighbouring Rwanda.

Special envoy Kofi Annan is heading for Syria, a day after the UN condemned it over the Houla massacre, in which more than 100 people died.