World
US President Barack Obama says a small church's plans to burn the Koran are a "recruitment bonanza" for al-Qaeda.
Euro MPs call on France to suspend its deportations of Roma (Gypsies), as Paris seeks co-operation from Romania.
French financial police search the headquarters of President Nicolas Sarkozy's party over the inquiry into the L'Oreal party funding scandal, reports say.
At least eight people are killed as a car bomb explodes at Somalia's main airport in Mogadishu, officials say.
Investigators in the Philippines say police may have accidentally shot some of the hostages on a bus hijacked last month.
Taliban leader Mullah Omar says his fighters are on the verge of victory in Afghanistan and the Nato-led campaign has been "a complete failure".
Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticises the tactics of his opponents, in a BBC interview ahead of Sunday's constitutional referendum.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Mexican drug violence is looking increasingly like an insurgency, a comment strongly rejected by Mexico.
At least 15 people are killed and more than 60 wounded in a bomb attack in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz, local officials say.
The referendum on independence for Southern Sudan is a "ticking time bomb", US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says.
A British journalist held captive by militants in north-west Pakistan since March is released.
Nineteen years after his brutal beating by four LA police officers, Rodney King is marrying a juror from the case.
Residents of a small street called Lustful Court in the US state of Georgia are told to raise a petition if they want a less provocative street name.
Contractors who worked for BP on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon oil rig criticise the company's report into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
President Obama defends his opposition to extending Bush-era tax cuts for wealthier people and criticises what he calls Republican obstruction.
A mass shooting in a shoe factory in Honduras is blamed on rival street gangs linked to Mexican drug cartels.
Cuba's Fidel Castro criticises Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for what he called his anti-Semitic attitudes.
The murder rate has fallen by 8.6% over the past year in South Africa, the latest statistics show.
Striking pilots at Air Zimbabwe have began talks with management over a pay dispute that has grounded the carrier's flights.
China warns Japan that their wider relationship will suffer if Tokyo mishandles a dispute about a Chinese fishing boat seized in disputed waters.