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• Trump-Kim summit: Second meeting by end of February

  The announcement came after the US president met Kim Jong-un's right-hand man at the White House.

• Australia swelters through record-breaking heatwave

  The country has just experienced five of its 10 warmest days on record, meteorologists say.

• Saiga ranger's death sparks Kazakh call for justice

  Calls for justice mount after poachers beat up two rangers and leave them to die in the Kazakh steppe.

• Meng Hongwei: Wife of ex-Interpol chief seeks France asylum

  Grace Meng's husband is in a Chinese jail and she already has French police protection.

• Graffiti spotted in Tokyo could be Banksy artwork - maybe

  Japanese officials are trying to work out whether the famous British street artist has paid a visit.

• US citizen arrested for war crimes in Bangladesh 'was only 13'

  Mohamed Jubair Monir's family say he is innocent and maintain that he was only 13 during the 1971 war.

• Aiia Maasarwe: Arrest over killing of Israeli student in Melbourne

  Israeli student Aiia Maasarwe was attacked while on the phone to her sister, police say.

• Australia v India: MS Dhoni half-century guides tourists to ODI series win

  MS Dhoni and Kedar Jadhav put on unbeaten fourth-wicket stand of 121 to guide India to a 2-1 one-day international series win in Australia.

• Germany 'considers ban on Huawei' amid global backlash

  Other countries have barred the Chinese firm from their network infrastructure over security concerns.

• Sydney axe attacks: Woman jailed for wounding 7-Eleven customers

  Evie Amati randomly struck customers in a Sydney convenience store, leaving two badly injured.

• Ram Rahim Singh: India guru jailed for life over journalist's murder

  Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, in prison for raping followers, is found guilty of murdering a journalist.

• Cai Dongjia: China's 'godfather of crystal meth' executed

  The ex-Communist Party chief protected drug makers in a notorious crystal meth village, reports say.

• Rent-a-sister: Helping Japan's recluses

  The women trying to coax Japan’s reclusive young men out of their bedrooms.

• Indonesian woman mauled to death by 700kg crocodile

  Deasy Tuwo, a 44-year-old scientist, was killed whilst trying to feed the 4.4m-long reptile.

• 'Afghan Justin Trudeau': Singer on looking like Canada's PM

  Singer Abdul Salam Maftoon's similarity to Canada's PM has caught people's attention on a TV talent show.