Following news of Mr Kim's death, South Korea put its armed forces on high alert and said the country was on a crisis footing. Japan's government convened a special security meeting.
The US government says it will continue its case against BP over the Deepwater Horizon oil rig spill despite a deal the company reached on Friday with the largest group of private claimants
After decades of communist rule, the government has slowly loosened its restrictions on private enterprise - and the US has taken steps to ease its economic embargo
These elections are being seen as a key test of the commitment to political reform of the new government - which is led by a civilian but backed by the military
Abdollah Hemat, spokesman for the governor of Uruzgan, told the Afghan Islamic Press news agency that the dead man was a civilian and not an employee of the government.
The answer is that India, unlike its rival Asian giant China, has no truly national language of its own. Hindi, the official language of central government, is an artificial and largely unspoken 20th Century construct.
The prime minister and his deputy met twice ahead of the report's publication in an effort to agree on a unified government response to Lord Justice Leveson's recommendations.
The combined messages about the efficacy of logos and colours in selling cigarettes, helped prompt the government to begin its legislative push to introduce plain packaging.
It threw out technical arguments by the tobacco companies that the government was trying to "acquire" their intellectual property rights by removing logos.
The improving numbers are mostly because of government investment," said Dong Xian'an, economist with Peking First Advisory, about the official numbers.
From the second quarter the government has unleashed a lot of projects, and that has started to be felt in the economy, but it's not a very healthy recovery yet."
