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Seoul plans to expand Korean air defence identification zone over disputed East China Sea islands.

Consumer inflation rises to a five-year high amid higher factory output.

Project seen as a diplomatic gesture aimed at Taiwan as Air Defence Zone angers neighbours.

Protesters seeking Thai PM's exit scale compound walls of army headquarters.

Fans queued up for midnight launches as Sony's PS4 goes on sale a week after Microsoft's Xbox One.

China calls dispatch of fighter jets and early warning aircraft over East China Sea exercise.

Beijing's air defence zone over Diaoyu/Senkaku islands ignored in widening row over archipelago's ownership.

David Moyes says Shinji Kagawa and Wayne Rooney work really well together after Manchester United thrashed Bayer Leverkusen

Internal memo comes amid the global FX fixing scandal investigations

Financial regulator could strip oversight for setting yen benchmark interest rate Tibor from banks.

Chancellor Angela Merkel will be able to form a government by Christmas.

The US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority orders Barclays Capital to pay millions in damages

US defence secretary Chuck Hagel pledges support in growing row over Diaoyu/Senkaku islands.

Beijing attacks Australia over criticism for unilateral imposition of air defence zone over Diaoyu/Senkaku archipelago.

Beijing's defence ministry asserts it can 'effectively manage its airspace'.

Two American military aircraft fly over disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku islands in contravention of China demand.

Kevin de Bruyne has been offered another way out of Chelsea

Cluster of eruptions perfectly normal phenomenon, volcanologists says.

Australia joins islands ownership row by summoning Beijing's envoy to Canberra but China remains defiant.

The apathy displayed in Warsaw has to give way to proper action, as there is no planet B.

IBTimes UK looks at five of the world's greatest sports teams after New Zealand finish 2013 unbeaten