Prime Minister Julia Gillard has reaffirmed Australia's commitment to stay and follow the mission in Afghanistan, as news of another soldier losing his life in the war came in.

American citizen David Headley who has admitted scouting targets for the 2008 assault on Mumbai by Pakistani militants testified on Monday that the plot was hatched with at least one Pakistani intelligence official and a Navy frogman.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Monday that she did not yet plan to meet with the Dalai Lama when he visits Australia in June, but acknowledged that the nation expected her to receive the revered Tibetan spiritual leader.

The country's second largest software exporter Infosys Technologies on Saturday said it plans to invest between $125-150 million in its new campus in Shanghai, China.

German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble backs his French counterpart Christine Lagarde as the EU candidate to head the International Monetary Fund, a German weekly reported on Saturday.

Britain's newly married Prince William and his wife, the former Kate Middleton, have left the island nation of the Seychelles after a 10-day honeymoon, officials said on Saturday.

Nato aircraft hit eight warships of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces overnight on Friday in the ports of Tripoli, Al Khums and Sirte, the Atlantic alliance said in a statement.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) has sold about 250,000 playbook tablets in the first month after its launch, says a report here. Launched April 19, the playbook failed to make an initial impact as pre-launch reviews had described it as a 'half baked' product by RIM in an attempt to project it as a rival to Apple's iPad.

Russia expelled Israel's military attache at its Moscow embassy because he engaged in industrial espionage, an unnamed secret service official told the state RIA Novosti news agency on Thursday.

The lawyer of detained US hikers in Iran told AFP on Thursday that he has sought judiciary permission to meet his clients after their family raised concerns the two men could be on a hunger strike.