Cuba's best-known dissident blogger, Yoani Sanchez, launches an online newspaper to provide "essential information" in the communist-run state.

A Canadian dogwalker admits six dogs in her care died of heatstroke in the back of her vehicle after previously saying they had been stolen.

The French train operator SNCF has discovered that 2,000 new trains it ordered at a cost of 15bn euros are too wide for many regional platforms.

Amnesty International says a shortfall in international support has left many Syrian refugees in Lebanon unable to access crucial medical care.

Bitter divisions emerge within Pakistan's TV regulator over moves to take the country's largest and most influential television station off the air.

Thousands of police across Brazil go on a one-day strike over pay in another hiccup ahead of the football World Cup, which begins on 12 June.

A legal dispute faces Led Zeppelin over the song Stairway to Heaven, widely seen as one of the greatest rock compositions of all time.

Two pandas from China arrive in Malaysia - a loan delayed by the tension over the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.