About 600 asylum seekers are missing and at least 10 are hurt after a fire that started after clashes led to the evacuation of a refugee camp in northern France, medical aid charity Medecins Sans Frontieres says.

The main suspect in the Stockholm truck attack that killed four people and injured 15 confesses to committing a terrorist crime, his lawyer says.

An ABC TV crew manages to get inside the compound of Jakarta's firebrand cleric Habib Rizieq, the man leading the divisive campaign against the capital's Christian governor, known as Ahok.

An Amnesty International report into capital punishment shows China may have killed more people than the rest of the world combined last year, but the true number is hard to verify.

Kim Il Sung's decidedly Bond-esque symbol of strength and modernity has had a facelift to better embrace the times.