Chinese universities are stocking HIV self-test kits in vending machines as the country attempts to curb a growing rate of young people infected in a culture where sex is a taboo subject.

The leaders of strategically important but small countries like Papua New Guinea are using the competition between China and traditional partners like Australia to attract aid and investment.

US President Donald Trump attacks former FBI director James Comey, calling him a "weak and untruthful slime ball" over news accounts Mr Comey's upcoming memoir is hugely critical of the President.

India is shaken after police officers, and former and current politicians are named in connection with two unrelated child rape cases, one involving the kidnapping, gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl.

The US says it will hold Syria's main ally Russia responsible for failing to stop the use of chemical weapons, while the UK says Moscow's claim that it helped stage the attack is "grotesque" and a "blatant lie".