China expresses serious concern to Washington and Seoul, saying moving the US military's controversial THAAD anti-missile defence system into South Korea will only worsen tensions in the region.

Mexico reacts with anger to a Trump administration plan to deport non-Mexican illegal immigrants over their border if they entered the US from the southern neighbouring nation.

Iraqi forces capture Mosul airport hours after launching a major offensive against Islamic State militants, who control the western half of the city, state television reports.

German authorities arrest a suspected Islamist in connection with an attack on a bus carrying players of one of the country's top football teams, a spokeswoman for the Federal Prosecutor's Office says.

A spirited Hillary Clinton takes on the Trump administration in one of her first public speeches since she lost the US presidential election, criticising everything from health care to the shortage of women appointees in top positions.

There are storylines galore for the final round of the Masters with plenty of big names in contention for the green jacket, headed by co-leaders Justin Rose and Sergio Garcia.

At least 29 people die as a bus plunges into a ravine in the northern Philippines, in one of the country's deadliest accidents in years, officials say.

Dubai is under pressure to reveal what happened to one of its princesses, who was allegedly kidnapped by armed men after trying to flee to India on a luxury yacht.

At least 10 people are killed and 50 injured in an explosion on a train carriage in St Petersburg's underground metro, Russian authorities say.

Vladimir Putin has been sworn in for another six years as Russian President, buoyed by popular support but weighed down too by a costly confrontation with the West, a fragile economy and uncertainty about what happens when his term ends.