A US commander in Afghanistan is dismissed after making disparaging comments about Afghan President Hamid Karzai in an interview.

The top commander of the Farc left-wing guerrilla group, Alfonso Cano, has been killed in Colombia, officials say.

Rescuers in China save more than 40 more miners who have been trapped underground for more than 36 hours after a cave-in, state media say.

Greek PM George Papandreou seeks a unity government to deal with the debt crisis after winning a confidence vote, but the main opposition says it will not join him in coalition.

All corruption charges against Uganda's former Vice-President Gilbert Bukenya are dropped just days before his trial.

A series of bomb attacks on churches and the police in Nigeria's north-eastern city of Damaturu kill at least 30 people, reports say.

A court in Pakistan charges two police officers and five suspected Taliban militants over the 2007 assassination of former PM Benazir Bhutto.

Tiger Woods' former caddie Steve Williams apologises to his ex-boss for comments which he admits could be "construed as racist".