World News Update, what you need to know

Schapelle Corby will likely have to wait until Friday to learn whether her bid for release from a Bali prison will succeed.

ELSEWHERE:

WAITANGI - Hundreds of New Zealanders have gathered in the rain at Waitangi for the dawn service to mark the 174th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.

VATICAN CITY - A UN human rights committee is urging the Vatican to open its files on pedophiles and bishops who concealed their crimes, while the Holy See's UN representative accused the organisation of distorting facts in a report.

BEIRUT - Children in Syria have been tortured, maimed and sexually abused by President Bashar al-Assad's forces and recruited for combat by the rebels fighting to topple him, according to a new UN report.

BANGUI - A suspected ex-rebel in the Central African Republic has been lynched by soldiers after a military ceremony and his lifeless body dragged through the streets before being dismembered and set on fire.

LONDON - A British fathers' rights campaigner, who defaced a portrait of the Queen by Australian artist Ralph Heimans, has started a hunger strike after being jailed for six months.

BRUSSELS - The European Commission has accepted a Google plan to remedy complaints it abuses its dominant position in internet search, proposing that whenever it displays its own specialised search services, it will also display the services of three rivals in the same way to users.

NEW YORK - Four people have reportedly been taken into custody on drug charges after police investigating Philip Seymour Hoffman's death executed search warrants.