Supporters of Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri stage mass protests at efforts by Hezbollah to form the next government.

The Chinese government sets classes in good manners for schoolchildren in a bid to enhance the ethical quality of the nation and China's influence abroad.

The Mexican Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia dies at 86, after a lifetime campaigning for indigenous Maya rights in Chiapas state.

The head of the Catholic Church in Italy criticises Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who is embroiled in a sex scandal allegedly involving an under-age dancer.

The US says leaked documents apparently showing Israel rejected Palestinian concessions will make a peace deal "more difficult" but will not affect efforts to achieve it.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev vows to track down and punish those behind an apparent suicide bomb attack at Moscow's Domodedovo airport that killed 35 people.

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera is accused of acting irresponsibly after landing his helicopter on a public road because it was running out of fuel.

A tiny cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex has been discovered in China with only a single claw on each upper limb.