Egypt's military ruler Field Marshal Mohamad Tantawi is set to testify at the trial of former President Hosni Mubarak.

Four people are arrested in the Swedish city of Gothenburg on suspicion of preparing a terror attack, police say.

The head of Libya's interim government, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, flies to Tripoli for the first time since anti-Gaddafi forces captured the capital.

A French hostage is rescued from pirates off Yemen and her captors detained but a second hostage remains missing, EU defence officials say.

A British man is killed and his wife kidnapped from a luxury Kenyan resort near the Somali border.

Guatemalans go to the polls to choose a new president amid concerns about rising gang and drug-related violence in the country.

A group of prominent Burmese satirists flies home from self-imposed exile in Thailand following the president's appeal to overseas Burmese to return.

The head of the Arab League says he has agreed with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on steps aimed at ending months of violence there.