| Pinera sworn in as new quake hits |
| Sebastian Pinera is sworn in as president of quake-hit Chile, as a 6.9-magnitude aftershock strikes the centre of the country. |
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| Turkey and Sweden in genocide row |
| Turkey withdraws its ambassador to Sweden after the parliament votes to describe as genocide the killing of Armenians in WWI. |
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| Web censure 'curbs human rights' |
| Freedom of expression on the web has been curtailed in 2009, the US state department says in its annual human rights report. |
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| Iraq results point to tight race |
| First results from Iraq's election suggest a tight contest may be developing between PM Nouri Maliki and main rival Iyad Allawi. |
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| Russians jailed over race murder |
| Nine members of a Russian white supremacist group are jailed for up to 22 years in connection with the killing of an African man. |
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| Biden tries to ease Mid-East row |
| US Vice-President Joe Biden says Middle East peace talks must resume, despite a row over Israeli settlement plans. |
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| Drogba is African Footballer of Year |
| Ivory Coast and Chelsea striker Didier Drogba is named African Footballer of the Year. |
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| Extradition over Auschwitz theft |
| A Stockholm court rules a Swedish man can be extradited to Poland for trial over the theft of a sign from Auschwitz. |
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| Thalidomide effect mystery solved |
| The mechanism by which thalidomide causes malformed limbs is revealed by scientists. |
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| US school prom axed as lesbian student asks to bring girlfriend |
| A student at a high school in Mississippi says the school board cancelled her school's prom rather than let her attend it with her lesbian girlfriend |
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| Mexican tycoon shakes up world rich list |
| Mexican Carlos Slim overtakes Bill Gates as the world's richest man, according to the Forbes "rich list", with a fortune of $53.5bn.
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| Liverpool sunk by late Lille goal |
| Liverpool face an uphill task to progress from the last 16 of the Europa League after Eden Hazard's goal gives a lively Lille side a 1-0 first-leg lead. |
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| England to make late Broad call |
| England will make a last-minute call on the fitness of Stuart Broad for the first Test against Bangladesh in Chittagong. |
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| It's quiz time! |
| What do humans and bonobos have in common? |
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| Net billionaires |
| Who has profited from the web's biggest sites? |
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| Bosnian fallout |
| Pressure on UK after arrest of ex-Bosnian president |
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| Between friends |
| US and Israel dodge settlement confrontation |
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| Parched island |
| Politicians look away as Cyprus dies of drought |
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| 'Jihad Jane' |
| Profile of Colleen LaRose, charged with terror offences |
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| Nigeria women protest at killings |
| Hundreds of Nigerian women protest over last week's violence near Jos, where women and children were massacred. |
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| Gambia row over wave of arrests |
| An opposition leader criticises a wave of arrests in The Gambia, saying detainees do not know why they are being held. |
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| New York banking gains on London |
| New York and London have been ranked as the joint-top global financial centres according to new research. |
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| Lula criticised for Cuba comment |
| Brazil's President Lula is criticised for comments that appear to compare Cuban dissidents on hunger strike to common criminals. |
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| Burma annuls 1990 Suu Kyi poll win |
| Burma's leaders formally annul the National League for Democracy's 1990 election win, as more details of new poll laws emerge. |
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| Japan protest over tuna ban plan |
| Japan voices opposition to a proposed ban on international trade in bluefin tuna, after the EU backs the plan. |
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| Ukraine president forms coalition |
| Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych secures a coalition in parliament and one of his loyalists is confirmed as PM. |
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| EU to back bluefin tuna trade ban |
| EU nations decide to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna until stocks recover. |
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| Hamas releases British journalist |
| Hamas releases a British journalist it had held for a month in Gaza, saying at a news conference that it suspects him of being a spy. |
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| Deadly clashes in southern Yemen |
| At least one person is killed in clashes between police and separatists in southern Yemen. |
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| Afghan plea for 'no proxy wars' |
| Afghanistan does not want other countries' "proxy wars" fought on its soil, President Hamid Karzai says in Islamabad. |
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| Sri Lanka general trial date set |
| Defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate Gen Sarath Fonseka is to be put on military trial next week, officials say. |
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| Cuba: The smoker's paradise |
| In Havana, one of the last bastions of the committed smoker, Matt Frei experiences Cubans' love affair with the cigar. |
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| Bitterness and unease in Zimbabwe |
| Andrew Harding reports from Harare on the uneasy mood among the white population and the MDC party as President Robert Mugabe says he's ready for another term. |
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| Can US broker Middle East peace? |
| Joe Biden is in the region to encourage talks between the Palestinians and Israel. What can be achieved? |
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