Heavily armed gangs burst into two bars in the northern city of Torreon and kill at least nine people.

The leaders of Sudan and South Sudan reaffirm their commitment to setting up a buffer zone on their shared border and resuming oil exports.

Ghanaian President John Mahama is due to be sworn into office in a ceremony in Accra which the main opposition is set to boycott.

Britain is "perfectly entitled" to ask for a change in its relationship with Europe, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

A British tourist dies in Australia after falling from the top of a waterfall near Sydney.

Totally blind mice have had their sight restored by injections of light-sensing cells into the eye, UK researchers report.

British experts begin work in Burma following a 17-year search for a cache of World War II Spitfire planes believed to be buried there.

Former governor Bill Richardson and Google chairman Eric Schmidt are in North Korea on a visit described as unhelpful by the US government.