AFP - An Australian state said it would fight a landmark court ruling this month that granted Aborigines native title to Perth, one of the country's major cities.

AP - Africa is hardest-hit by a global lack of basic sanitation that has left two out of every five people in the world without access to hygienic toilets, according to a new U.N. report.

AP - NATO defense ministers faced a tense meeting with their Russian counterpart Friday after the Western alliance angered Moscow by agreeing to deepen cooperation with Georgia.

AFP - New Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will fly to South Korea next week in a bid to repair strained relations, reports said, but officials in the two countries cast doubt on the date.

AFP - The German mobile phone arm of Taiwanese group BenQ has filed for insolvency as unions and politicians protested at the company's treatment of 3,000 employees who are set to lose their jobs.