More than 1,000 Muslim protesters have stormed a courthouse and burned two churches in Temanggung, central Java, Indonesia, after a Christian man was sentenced to five years in jail for distributing leaflets deemed insulting to Islam.

The US has called on the Egyptian government to immediately lift the country's emergency laws, which have been in place for 30 years.

An explosion caused by a gas build-up injured 10 people and badly damaged a shop in the southeast Turkish city of Diyarbakir on Tuesday, security sources said.

Military officers from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea held talks on Tuesday at their closely guarded frontier, the first cross-border contact since the North's lethal shelling of a South Korean island last November.

Islamist insurgent leader Doku Umarov said on Monday he had ordered a suicide bombing that killed 36 people at Russia's busiest airport last month.

Cambodia's Prime Minister has called for a UN buffer zone in a disputed area on its border with Thailand.

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Republic of Korea (RoK) will meet at the truce village of Panmunjom on February 8 to begin working-level military talks, the RoK’s Defense Ministry said.

South Sudan voted overwhelmingly to declare independence in final results of a referendum announced on February 7, opening the door to Africa's newest state and a fresh period of uncertainty for the fractured region.

One of Russia's most wanted men, Chechen warlord Doku Umarov, has said he ordered the deadly bomb attack last month on a Moscow airport.

President Hosni Mubarak held onto power on February 7, defying a popular uprising against his autocratic rule, after the government opened talks with opposition groups to resolve Egypt’s deepest crisis in 30 years.