The US calls on Egypt's government to immediately lift emergency laws, after a day of renewed protests in Cairo and other cities.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg obtains a restraining order against a man who was reportedly trying to contact him using threatening language.

A Dutch court rules that while the cell of a "giant" prisoner is cramped, it is not inhumane, and he must stay in jail.

A man imprisoned in Canada over the 1985 bombing of an Air India jet has appealed against his conviction for perjury in the trial of two alleged accomplices.

In Colombia, two suspected burglars on the run from police are caught after they try to hide inside a prison.

The uncle of two missing Swiss six-year-old twin girls says the family fear the worst after receiving money posted by their father before he killed himself.

A portrait of the muse who transformed painter Pablo Picasso's life is sold for £25.2m ($40.7m) at Sotheby's auction house in London.

The Middle East peace process could become a "casualty" of the calls for change sweeping across the Arab world, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague warns.