Up to one million people may have fled their homes because of violence following Ivory Coast's disputed elections, the UN refugee agency says.

The death toll of Myanmar's Thursday earthquake has risen to 75 with 111 injured so far, official sources said on Friday afternoon.

Warplanes roared through the skies over the Libya capital, Tripoli, early Friday, dropping bombs on the outskirts of the city where military bases are located.

Syrian leaders have pledged to introduce reforms to meet the demands of protesters, after days of violence in the southern city of Deraa.

At least 25 people were killed in landslides and building collapse in Myanmar's northeastern Tachileik and Tarpin, Shan state, caused by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake Thursday night.

Radiation injuries to three workers complicated the battle to control Japan's crippled nuclear plant on Friday and heightened global anxiety over the worst atomic crisis in 25 years.

Nato has agreed to take command of enforcing the no-fly zone over Libya from the US. But Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen made clear that other aspects of the operation would remain in the hands of the current coalition for now.

EU leaders are grappling with a new eurozone threat after Portugal's parliament rejected an austerity budget and PM Jose Socrates resigned.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 struck Myanmar on March 24, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

1,650 police will be deployed on March 25 to ensure law and order around parliament, where the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) plans to rally against three memorandums of Thai-Cambodian Joint Boundary Commission (JBC) meetings, a police source said.