A commuter train crash at a station in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, kills 49 people and leaves at least 600 injured, officials say.

American Marie Colvin of the UK's Sunday Times and French photographer Remi Ochlik are among 60 people killed as Syria intensifies its clampdown.

At least six people are killed and dozens injured in Afghanistan as protests spread over the burning of the Koran at a US airbase near Kabul.

Ethiopian and Somali troops capture Baidoa, a strategic stronghold of al-Shabab Islamist militants, as the UN approves extra African Union troops for Somalia.

Search teams in Italy find eight more bodies in the wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia which capsized on 13 January as the inquiry spreads.

A controversial anti-piracy agreement is to be referred to the EU's highest court due to concerns surrounding internet freedoms.

Protests take place outside parliament in Greece, as MPs consider emergency laws after a 130bn-euro bailout deal.

Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is released after two days of questioning over an alleged prostitution ring.

Europe's top human rights watchdog, the Council of Europe, urges Germany to end the practice of surgically castrating sex offenders.

South Sudan expels the head of a Chinese and Malaysian-owned oil firm following its investigation into Khartoum's "theft" of oil worth $815m (£518m).

A trial verdict for Egyptian ex-President Hosni Mubarak, accused of ordering the killing of protesters in the revolution that ousted him, is set for 2 June.

Australia's Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigns amid widespread reports of a leadership tussle between him and Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

French Prime Minister Francois Fillon decides that the term "mademoiselle" should disappear from official paperwork.

A 12.76-carat pink diamond, reportedly Australia's largest, is being cut and polished after it was unearthed in Western Australia.

US President Barack Obama proposes a cut in corporate tax and an end to tax loopholes, as part of his election-year strategy on the economy.

A Los Angeles teacher has been intimidated by jail staff, his lawyer says, as he pleaded not guilty to 23 counts of child molestation.

Five taxi-drivers are shot dead as they wait for fares in the Mexican city of Monterrey, in an attack that is being blamed on extortion gangs.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who had cancer last year, says he will have to undergo another operation to remove a small lesion.

A gas-fuelled fire, with flames as high as 5m, may burn for months in waters off the Niger Delta in south-east Nigeria, a Chevron spokesperson tells the BBC.

Former Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo is to meet Senegal's opposition to try to defuse rising tensions ahead of Sunday's elections.

Mansoor Ijaz, the man at the centre of Pakistan's "memogate" scandal, begins giving video link testimony to a judicial commission in Islamabad.

China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs lodges an official complaint with Japan after a politician claimed the Nanjing Massacre of 1937-38 never occurred.

France's top court rejects a request by far right candidate Marine Le Pen to grant her supporters anonymity as she struggles to secure her place in the election.

The European Commission plans to freeze 495m euros of funding for Hungary, lamenting the country's excessive budget deficit.

Vast trails of seven-million-year-old fossilised footprints reveal the "social structure" of prehistoric elephants, say scientists.

The UN's nuclear agency says Iranian officials have stopped its monitors from visiting a military site in connection with Tehran's nuclear programme.

A man is charged with murdering a clergyman at his South Gloucestershire vicarage and a retired teacher in Worcestershire.

Tributes pour in for Sunday Times foreign correspondent Marie Colvin, who has been killed in Syria.

Peugeot shares jump 12% after the carmaker confirms it is in talks about possible "co-operations and alliances".

The eurozone's service sector shrinks unexpectedly in February, a survey suggests, increasing fears of a recession.

The number of passengers using BAA's Heathrow airport reached a record last year while losses for the company narrowed, the airport operator says.

Sergio Aguero is again the headline act as Manchester City seal an impressive win over holders Porto to reach the last 16 of the Europa League.

Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell is knocked out in the first round of the World Match Play Championship by South Korea's YE Yang.

Force India's Nico Hulkenberg sets the pace on the second day of the second pre-season test.

The average audience to have watched the Brits ceremony on ITV1 and catch-up channel ITV1+1 comes in at 6.2 million - the event's highest audience since 2005.

Actor John Leguizamo, known for films such as Moulin Rouge and Carlito's Way, is to play Del Boy in the US remake of Only Fools And Horses.

British actress Helena Bonham Carter is made a CBE by the Queen, two years on from playing her mother in Oscar-winning film The King's Speech.

To mark America's Black History Month, a blues concert called 'Red White And Blues' was held at the Whitehouse, featuring Mick Jagger and B.B. King.

Tsunami devastated city in Japan is restoring pictures retrieved from rubble and returning it to owners.

Rosemarie Colvin, mother of the killed journalist Marie Colvin, has said her daughter was totally committed to what she did.

At least six people have been killed and dozens injured in Afghanistan after protests spread over the burning of copies of the Koran at a US airbase.

Ethiopian and Somali troops have taken a strategic stronghold of Islamist militants in south-western Somalia.

Australia's governing Labour party is in turmoil after the resignation of Kevin Rudd as Foreign Minister.

A Chinese company is fighting Apple Inc. over its use of the iPad trademark in China.

Bells at Notre Dame in Paris are being replaced to mark the 850th anniversary of the cathedral

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