Police search two houses in Sydney, Australia, for firearms, following suspected threat to attack a Sydney police station.

Five sponsors of football's world governing body Fifa write to its executive committee to demand "independent oversight" of reforms.

A former Argentine political prisoner and her son meet for the first time since she gave birth in the cell of a clandestine detention centre in 1976.

A mammoth 10-hour debate is expected before MPs vote whether to authorise UK airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria.

Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party won a landslide victory in elections last month, is meeting President Thein Sein and the army chief to discuss the handover of power to her party.

Fresh rains in the southern Indian city of Chennai causes serious flooding, with flights and trains suspended and hundreds of people without power.

Pakistan hangs four men linked to last year's massacre at an army school which killed more than 150 people, the first executions in relation to the attack.

Nato invites Montenegro to join the alliance, in its first expansion for six years.