Tokyo (CNN) -- Japan added to global growth jitters on Friday by posting unexpectedly weak industrial production numbers for July and a muted outlook for August and September. Economists had been expecting a 1.7% increase in output from the manufacturing sector from June, boosted by the effects of reconstruction spending in the tsunami-hit Tohoku area.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka on Tuesday began interviews for the post of hangman a year after two positions fell vacant, with at least 480 convicts on death row. But it was not quite clear how the two successful candidates would fill their days - the death penalty has not been used in Sri Lanka, a predominantly Buddhist country, since 1976.