Voters in Sri Lanka go to the polls, with former President Mahinda Rajapaksa aiming to return to office as prime minister.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visits the victims of last week's explosions at a chemical warehouse in the port of Tianjin, where 95 are still missing.

The Obama administration warns China over its use of covert agents on US soil, according to a report in the New York Times.

Australian Liberal backbencher Warren Entsch introduces his controversial same-sex marriage bill to parliament.

Toyota and John Deere say they will halt operations at plants near China's Tianjin port, where explosions last week killed more than 100 people.

Nancy Kacungira, a television anchor for Kenya's KTN TV channel, wins the first BBC World News Komla Dumor Award.

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi approves stringent new counter-terror laws to fight the country's growing Islamist insurgency.

Indonesian search teams head to a site in the remote Papua region where suspected debris from a plane which went missing on Sunday has been spotted.