The general in charge of public security in the central Mexican state of Morelos has been sacked after the murder of seven young people triggered mass protests.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan, on a tour of Japan's tsunami-hit coast a month after the disaster hit, says survivors will never be abandoned.

South Africa's Charl Schwartzel takes advantage of Rory McIlroy's meltdown to win the Masters by two shots on a staggering final day.

A law comes into force in France making it an offence for a Muslim woman to conceal her face behind a veil in public.

Colombian soldiers say one of the left-wing rebels wanted for the 2002 kidnap of former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt has been killed.

USAID, the development arm of the US, is funding a $20m (£12m) remake of Sesame Street in Pakistan as part of efforts to improve education.

An Australian man is jailed for life for throwing his daughter to her death from Melbourne's highest bridge in a fit of rage over a custody battle.

China posts its first quarterly trade deficit in seven years, as it continues efforts to rebalance its economy.