The foreign ministers of China, Japan and South Korea are preparing to meet this month for their first talks in nearly three years, in a bid to resolve tension over Japan's wartime past and discuss a three-way summit.
A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the city of Tucson, Arizona, can forcibly remove scores of coffin-like "pods" set up on city sidewalks to protest treatment of the homeless but that the demonstrators can continue to camp out on the pavement.
The jury hearing the Boston Marathon bombing trial on Thursday is due to view autopsy photos of a university police officer whom prosecutors charge defendant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev murdered three days after the deadly bombing.
The civilian and military heads of NATO cautioned the European Union on Wednesday against duplicating efforts following remarks by the president of the EU Commission suggesting the bloc should develop an "EU army" to deter Russia.
