Evacuation Begins of Besieged Syrian Town

Ambulances and buses have entered the besieged rebel-held Syrian town of Zabadani to evacuate scores of fighters under a UN-sponsored deal.

North and South Korea say they have resolved a decades-long impasse over Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during the Second World War.

A local official, believed to be behind the landfill mudslide in China's Shenzhen city, is reported to have killed himself.