Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific airways posts a 204% increase in profits in 2013 to $335m, as demand for flights to southern China increases.

David Cameron is making his first visit to Israel on Wednesday since becoming UK prime minister.

Former Libyan PM Ali Zeidan has left the country, reports say, despite a travel ban being imposed after he lost a confidence vote in parliament.

Mexican vigilante leader Hipolito Mora is detained as a suspect in the killing of two fellow vigilantes in Michoacan

A newly recruited hangman in Sri Lanka resigns in shock after being shown the gallows for the first time.

Nine men are arrested in China and Hong Kong over the stabbing of veteran journalist Kevin Lau, police in Hong Kong say

Prosecutors in Switzerland open a money laundering investigation into Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of the president of Uzbekistan.

Conservative Salvadorean presidential candidate Norman Quijano demands a new election after preliminary results suggest he has lost.