Nato endorses Afghan timetable
Mon, 21 May 2012 21:12:21 GMT
Nato leaders endorse plans to hand combat command in Afghanistan to local forces by mid-2013 and withdraw fighting troops by 2014.
Suicide attack targets Yemen army
Mon, 21 May 2012 16:55:41 GMT
More than 90 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack claimed by al-Qaeda on soldiers in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, security officials say.
Protesters attack Mali president
Mon, 21 May 2012 20:56:46 GMT
Interim Mali President Dioncounda Traore is briefly hospitalised with a head wound after being attacked in his office by demonstrators, officials say.
Farc kills 12 Colombian soldiers
Mon, 21 May 2012 21:31:27 GMT
Colombian officials say left-wing Farc rebels have killed 12 soldiers during a patrol in a remote rural area near the sensitive border with Venezuela.
Jail for US webcam spy student
Mon, 21 May 2012 20:58:23 GMT
A US student who used a webcam to secretly film his room-mate in a gay encounter is sentenced to 30 days in prison by a judge.
'Lake red' after Breivik killings
Mon, 21 May 2012 19:11:05 GMT
A man who survived Anders Behring Breivik's attack on Utoeya island tells his trial the surrounding lake was red with blood following the massacre.
Strauss-Kahn faces new rape case
Mon, 21 May 2012 09:54:51 GMT
A French prosecutor orders an initial inquiry into claims that ex-IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn was involved in a "gang rape" in Washington.