Electricity and water are cut to northern Ivory Coast, where most residents oppose incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo, the UN confirms.

The US Army charges a soldier held in connection with the leak of US government documents published by the Wikileaks website with 22 extra counts.

A congressional commission in Chile finds the owners of the San Jose mine responsible for the collapse last year which left 33 men trapped underground for 69 days.

Cuban President Raul Castro admits plans to make some 500,000 state workers redundant by the end of March are behind schedule.

The Dutch centre-right cabinet, backed by an anti-Islam party, is set to fall short of a majority in the Senate after regional polls, exit polls suggest.

Brazil's central bank raises its key interest rate to 11.75% in a bid to cool inflation in one of the world's fastest-growing economies.

Research predicts the science-fiction mainstay of "tractor beams", showing that precisely-shaped laser beams can draw small particles backward.

Rebels in Libya celebrate after fighting off an attempts by troops loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi to retake the eastern oil port of Brega.