Japan came out of a recession in the fourth quarter of last year, but the world's third largest economy grew at a slower than expected pace.

The UN Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution demanding Shia Houthi rebels give up their control of Yemen's government.

PM Tony Abbott says "legal options" are open in the case of two Australians on death row in Indonesia, as corruption allegations emerge.

Scientists are monitoring snail habitats from space in a bid to combat the spread of the parasitic disease schistosomiasis in Africa.

European finance ministers will meet in Brussels later amid increasing scepticism that a deal over Greece's debt problems can be reached.

The United States north-east is reeling from the latest in a series of disruptive blizzards, with temperatures up to 17C below normal.

Many schools in Liberia reopen six months after they were closed to try to curb the spread of the world's deadliest Ebola outbreak.

A court in the southern Spanish city of Granada drops charges against nine out of 10 Catholic priests accused of sexual abuse.