Former El Salvador's footballer Alfredo Pacheco - the most capped player in the national team - is shot dead, officials say.

The chairman of one of China's largest state-owned mobile operators, China Telecom, is being investigated by the country's anti-corruption watchdog.

Several hundred people march in Corsica, defying a ban on protests introduced after a Muslim prayer hall was vandalised on the French island.

Protesters land on a remote Philippine island in the disputed South China Sea, to highlight growing Chinese encroachment in the area.

Nasser al-Bahri - late al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden's former bodyguard - dies after a long illness, medical sources in Yemen tell the BBC.

An exclusion zone is in place after a 26-carriage freight train carrying approximately 200,000 litres of sulphuric acid derailed in north-west Queensland, Australia.

Japan and South Korea's foreign ministers are set for historic talks on the fraught issue of so-called "comfort women", forced to work in Japanese brothels during World War Two.

China passes tough new anti-terror laws saying they are needed to combat rising threats, but critics say the measures are too broad and sweeping.