A cloud of ash spewed from a volcano in Chile continues to ground flights in Argentina, Uruguay and now southern Brazil.

Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader, will present the 2011 Reith Lectures along with Eliza Manningham-Buller, former head of MI5.

A woman whose face was torn off by a chimpanzee in 2009 is recovering after receiving a full facial and double hand transplant.

Finnish football is rocked by a match-fixing scandal which has implications across the world.

Colombia's president passes a controversial law that aims to compensate an estimated four million victims of the country's 47-year armed conflict.

The US says Syria is heading down a "dangerous path" and calls for an immediate end to the use of violence against anti-government protesters.

Two mountain peaks in the Austrian Alps are put up for sale for 121,000 euros (£107,000; $170,000), but local residents are not happy.

Hundreds of Mexicans conclude a "peace caravan" to demand an end to the violent drugs war that has left more than 30,000 people dead since 2006.