Science-fiction sequel Tron: Legacy debuts at number one on the box office chart in the US and Canada.

More than 100 people are charged with child pornography offences in Austria after police seize material from computers across the country.

Ghana's Asamoah Gyan is crowned 2010 BBC African Footballer of the Year, beating Dede Ayew, Samuel Eto'o, Yaya Toure and Didier Drogba.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki prepares to unveil his cabinet, more than nine months after inconclusive parliamentary elections.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard says as many as 48 asylum seekers may have been killed when their boat sank off Christmas Island.

Europe's new space mission to monitor polar ice, Cryosat-2, produces its first significant science result - a map of ocean circulation across the Arctic basin.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says he has "nothing to hide" over an inquiry into the sale of mobile phone licences for a fraction of their multi-billion dollar value.

At least 26 people are killed when a bus carrying a group of tourists from Thailand overturns in Malaysia, officials say.