Colombian peace negotiator Piedad Cordoba leaves the country for an undisclosed location after receiving death threats.

Libyan rebels face heavy fighting in Zawiya and Zlitan on either side of Tripoli, as they continue an offensive against Col Muammar Gaddafi.

Suspected members of an Islamist sect kill three policemen and a civilian in Nigeria's volatile north-eastern Borno state, police say.

A Pakistani-American who told police his wife had been gunned down by men calling them terrorists is accused with another women of plotting the murder.

Fashion chain Zara says it will strengthen its oversight of production after workers were found toiling in Brazil to make clothes for the label.

North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong-il begins his first trip to Russia since 2002, where he is due to have talks within the next few days with President Medvedev.

Egypt says it is withdrawing its ambassador to Israel for the first time in a decade over the deaths of five of its policemen.

Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt says he is "deeply saddened" by the death of a New Zealand special forces soldier during an attack on the British Council in Kabul.