Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez addresses cheering crowds in Caracas after having a cancerous tumour removed in Cuba.

France's Christine Lagarde is to become the first female managing director of the IMF, at a time of heightened global financial nerves.

Baidu, the biggest web company in China, will partner with Microsoft to provide English-language search results.

Germany's Constitutional Court examines a plea that the eurozone bail-outs of Greece, the Republic of Ireland and Portugal were unconstitutional.

Venezuela marks the 200th anniversary of independence from Spain, a day after President Hugo Chavez made a surprise return from surgery in Cuba.

Chocolate lovers may soon be able to print their own 3D creations thanks to work by UK scientists.

The EU bans the import of some Egyptian seeds and beans after fenugreek is linked to killer E. coli outbreaks in Germany and France.

More than 1,100 people have been shot dead in political violence in the Pakistani city of Karachi since the start of the year, campaigners say.