Hillary and Bill Clinton join international donors at the opening of an industrial park aimed at boosting investment in quake-ravaged Haiti.

Some 24,000 young people in the Pakistani city of Lahore break a world record to form the largest human flag.

Japan's justice minister resigns weeks after taking office, citing ill health, amid a scandal over alleged ties to an organised crime group.

An early morning fire at a hospital in the southern Taiwan city of Tainan kills 12 elderly patients and injures dozens more.

Qatar's ruler is set to arrive in Gaza, making him the first head of state to visit since the Hamas Islamist movement took control in 2007.

Online voters in Russia choose 45 opposition figures tasked with leading the loose alliance of anti-Vladimir Putin forces.

Well-known Bengali poet and novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay dies after a heart attack in the Indian city of Calcutta.

EU commissioners are due to debate proposals that would force quotas for women on corporate boards.