The Libyan rebel commander accuses Nato of standing idly by while pro-Gaddafi forces kill people in the besieged city of Misrata.

A military officer from the United Arab Emirates is accused of luring a Filipina servant to the US and keeping her in virtual slavery.

The losing candidate in the presidential election in Haiti, Mirlande Manigat, has accused the electoral council of falsifying the results.

Two workers are killed in Tennessee when a sewage tank wall collapsed, spilling millions of gallons of wastewater into a river.

A leak of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has been stopped, its operator reports.

The Bank of Japan is preparing to meet to discuss its next response to the disaster which threatens to derail the fragile economy.

Tribal gunmen on the Philippine island of Mindanao free 12 hostages, most of them teachers, five days after seizing them.

Ivorian leader Laurent Gbagbo denies reports he is surrendering after troops loyal to his rival Alassane Ouattara surrounded his residence.