Belgian runner Stefaan Engels sets a new world record by completing 365 marathon races in a year.

Police kill two people in north-western Tunisia, during an attack by protesters on a police station.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood joins other opposition groups in talks with officials following weeks of protest against President Mubarak's rule.

The security chief of a prison in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey is found murdered.

A search is under way for two British sailors after their yacht was hit by a large wave off the coast of Portugal.

Burma appoints former general and outgoing prime minister Thein Sein as the country's first civilian president after nearly 50 years of military rule.

Three Americans arrested while hiking near the Iraq-Iran border in 2009 are set to go on trial on spying charges in Tehran.

Police in three countries hunt for six-year-old twin girls abducted from their home in Switzerland by their father, who was later found dead in Italy.