A court in China's southern city of Fuzhou ordered compensation of 1.14 million yuan ($182,000) to a former death row prisoner who was acquitted on charges of poisoning two children, state media said on Tuesday.
Malawi has passed a law banning child marriage, raising the minimum age to 18 in a country where half of girls end up as child brides.
A South African government proposal to ban foreign nationals from owning land will apply to farms, not residential property, a government minister was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
The former chief operating officer of a major Chinese-American bank in San Francisco is set for trial on Tuesday in a rare criminal prosecution connected to the government's bank bailout program.
