Former Argentine President Carlos Menem is formally cleared of involvement in illegal arms sales to Croatia and Ecuador in the 1990s.

A convicted sex offender suspected of kidnapping a boy in Canada and then returning him to his family's home after they made an emotional appeal is arrested.

Afghan and international forces close in on insurgents holed up in a multi-storey building after a 12-hour attack on the US embassy and Nato headquarters in Kabul.

A fossil housed for 50 years in a Polish institute is the first dinosaur skeleton preserved with its own footprints, say scientists.

The World Health Organisation draws up a plan to try to tackle the "alarming" problem of drug-resistant tuberculosis in 53 European countries.

Venezuela's electoral authorities set 7 October 2012 as the date for the next presidential election, with President Hugo Chavez confident of victory.

A US commission's final report says government scientists who infected thousands of Guatemalans with STDs in the 1940s committed egregious breaches of medical ethics.

Niger says that Saadi Gaddafi, one of the sons of fugitive Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, has arrived in the capital, Niamey.