A car containing Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall has been attacked amid violence after MPs voted to raise university tuition fees in England.
The Swiss post office's bank, PostFinance, has frozen the accounts of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
The Ivorian military has sealed the country's borders and cut international media as tensions rise over the outcome of the presidential election run-off.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference got underway in the Mexican beach resort of Cancun Monday with calls for decisive action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide as part of an effort to curb global warming. But participants are looking for advances on a handful of issues rather than an overall agreement that would legally bind nations to reduce emissions.
The European Union says Iran has agreed to discuss its nuclear program at a meeting next week in Geneva.
While Western leaders and editorials have condemned North Korea's artillery barrage of its southern neighbour on Tuesday, in China the response has been more muted.
Forty-seven years ago Monday, late American president John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in his motorcade in downtown Dallas, Texas.
North Korea's shelling of an island in South Korea near a disputed sea border has drawn international condemnation.
Minoru Yanagida said the only two phrases he had to remember in parliament were: "I won't comment on individual cases," and "I'm acting in accordance with the law and the evidence."
At least 339 people died in Phnom Penh in a stampede at the end of the annual Water Festival.