The Iranian embassy in the Lebanese capital Beirut was hit by a double suicide bombing earlier today.

At least 22 people are thought to have been killed, with scores more injured.

Spain’s National Court has ordered arrest warrants for former Chinese President Jiang Zemin and four other officials on suspicion of involvement in alleged genocide in Tibet.

The Iranian Defence Ministry has announced the development of a new drone, with a range that would cover most of the Middle East, including Israel.

Defence Minister Hossein Dehghan said that progress will not be halted by sanctions imposed by “enemies”.

He added that the drone could be airborne for up to 30 hours and was its largest drone.

The president of Kurdistan in Iraq, Masoud Barzani, has called on Kurds in Turkey to back the peace process with the Turkish government.

Barzani was visiting Diyarbakir, the main city in Turkey’s Kurdish region.

China will loosen its longstanding policy of restricting the number of babies a couple may have.

A key decision making body of the Communist Party met this week, bringing about new reforms.

China’s “re-education through labour” camps will also be abolished, and the role of the private sector in the economy will be boosted.

Armed men torched the offices of an El Salvadoran NGO dedicated to tracing missing children from the era of military rule in the country, destroying the organisation's archives.

The Pro-Búsqueda had their offices set ablaze and computers, which contained sensitive information on the relatives of missing children, stolen in the raid on Thursday.

The United Nations Security Council refused to delay the International Criminal Court trial of Kenya’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, and his deputy for crimes against humanity on Friday.