The Australian state of Queensland counts the cost after Cyclone Yasi sweeps in, carving a trail of destruction across the north-east.

Egyptian anti-government protesters defy orders to leave Cairo's main square, after three die in the worst violence in more than a week of unrest.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez marks 12 years in power by promising to press on with his socialist revolution, despite admitting "mistakes".

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation says income at its television businesses helped its profits jump 150% in the last three months of 2010.

New pictures have been released of an isolated tribe living in rainforest on the Brazil-Peru border.

Human Rights Watch urges Pakistan to release a boy of 17 who has been charged under controversial blasphemy laws.

The Gulf of Mexico should largely recover from the BP oil spill by the end of next year, according to the administrator of a compensation fund for victims.

The duo behind the White Stripes, Jack and Meg White, call time on the band, saying they will "make no further new recordings or perform live".