French President Nicolas Sarkozy says allowing Greece into the eurozone was a "mistake" at the time, while Athens denies causing the debt crisis.

Indigenous rights activists in Brazil occupy the site of what is set to become the world's third largest hydro-electric dam project.

Taking a daily dose of aspirin can reduce the incidence of bowel cancer in people at high risk of the disease, scientists say.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is to open a Commonwealth summit in Perth, amid tight security in the western Australian city.

Croatia's former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader is due to go on trial, charged with corruption over a loan from an Austrian bank in 1995.

Violent protests erupt in Sidi Bouzid after the results of Tunisia's first democratic elections in decades - won by a moderate Islamist party - are announced.

The US military begins flying unarmed drone aircraft from a base in Ethiopia, as part of its fight against Islamist militants in neighbouring Somalia.

The head of the eurozone's bailout fund begins attempts to persuade China to invest in the scheme to help rescue member countries facing debt crises.