World
The newly appointed head of UN humanitarian relief Lady Valerie Amos has spent her first day in office touring Pakistan.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has defended the controversial referendum on changing the constitution.
Quentin Sommerville goes on foot patrol with some of the men of the US Army's 101st Airborne division near the village of Zerok in Afghanistan.
Mexico has rejected remarks from the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, that drug-related violence in Mexico increasingly has the hallmarks of an insurgency.
A small US church says it will defy international condemnation and go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Koran on the 9/11 anniversary.
UN peacekeepers "failed" the victims of mass rape in eastern DR Congo, a senior UN official has said.
At least 700 prisoners have escaped during an attack on a jail in northern Nigeria, including members of a militant Islamist sect.
A lion lunged at a trainer as stunned onlookers watched in horror, at Las Vegas's MGM Grand Hotel and Casino.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says he has not ruled out standing for president again at the 2012 elections.
The miners trapped underground in Chile were able to watch a football match after rescue workers provided a mini TV screen.
A scale model of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and how it is being repaired
At least 400,000 people have been affected by flooding in Mexico following torrential rains.
President Barack Obama has taken to the campaign trail to sell his strategy for boosting the US economy.
A powerful family accused of being behind the worst political massacre in the Philippines plotted the killings over dinner, a court has heard.
Angelina Jolie has visited Nowshera in north-west Pakistan to highlight the plight of more than 20 million people affected by the country's worst ever floods.
Six months on from the declaration of a hung parliament in Iraq's election, there is still no new government.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has expressed concern over the power of drug cartels and drug-related violence in Mexico.
President Barack Obama has urged the US congress to approve massive business tax breaks to boost the faltering US economy.
A "sequence of failures involving a number of different parties" was to blame for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP says.
Sri Lankan MPs have approved proposals to let President Mahinda Rajapaksa seek an unlimited number of terms, in a move critics say could lead to dictatorship.