Turkey withdraws its ambassador to Sweden after the parliament votes to describe as genocide the killing of Armenians in WWI.

Former US President George W Bush's advisor, Karl Rove, says he is proud of waterboarding as he believes it prevented attacks.

Thailand mobilises thousands of troops ahead of mass rallies by planned supporters of ousted former PM Thaksin Shinawatra.

Sebastian Pinera is sworn in as president of quake-hit Chile, as a 6.9-magnitude aftershock strikes the centre of the country.

Freedom of expression on the web has been curtailed in 2009, the US state department says in its annual human rights report.

First results from Iraq's election suggest a tight contest may be developing between PM Nouri Maliki and main rival Iyad Allawi.

Nine members of a Russian white supremacist group are jailed for up to 22 years in connection with the killing of an African man.

US Vice-President Joe Biden says Middle East peace talks must resume, despite a row over Israeli settlement plans.

Ivory Coast and Chelsea striker Didier Drogba is named African Footballer of the Year.

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

Mexican Carlos Slim overtakes Bill Gates as the world's richest man, according to the Forbes "rich list", with a fortune of $53.5bn.

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.

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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Hundreds of Nigerian women protest over last week's violence near Jos, where women and children were massacred.

An opposition leader criticises a wave of arrests in The Gambia, saying detainees do not know why they are being held.

New York and London have been ranked as the joint-top global financial centres according to new research.

Brazil's President Lula is criticised for comments that appear to compare Cuban dissidents on hunger strike to common criminals.

Burma's leaders formally annul the National League for Democracy's 1990 election win, as more details of new poll laws emerge.

Japan voices opposition to a proposed ban on international trade in bluefin tuna, after the EU backs the plan.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych secures a coalition in parliament and one of his loyalists is confirmed as PM.

A Stockholm court rules a Swedish man can be extradited to Poland for trial over the theft of a sign from Auschwitz.

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.

At least one person is killed in clashes between police and separatists in southern Yemen.

Afghanistan does not want other countries' "proxy wars" fought on its soil, President Hamid Karzai says in Islamabad.

Defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate Gen Sarath Fonseka is to be put on military trial next week, officials say.

In Havana, one of the last bastions of the committed smoker, Matt Frei experiences Cubans' love affair with the cigar.

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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