The governor of the main Kandahar prison is arrested days after the escape of about 500 prisoners, many of them Taliban militants.

Researchers in Italy begin a search for the tomb of a woman who may have been the model for Leonardo Da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa.

More than two million Canadians have cast early votes ahead of the 2 May general election, marking a 35% rise compared with the 2008 election, officials say.

A high-profile opposition leader in Belarus, Andrei Sannikov, goes on trial charged with organising mass protests after last year's presidential election.

Search teams say they have discovered part of a flight recorder from the Air France plane that went down in 2009 off the coast of Brazil, but not its key data section.

Orlando Bosch, a prominent Cuban anti-Castro militant, has died in the American city of Miami at the age of 84.

Smoke from a brush fire enveloped the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday - but there is no impact on launch preparations for shuttle Endeavour.

A renegade Ivory Coast militia leader whose forces helped the country's new president gain power has been killed by government troops.