Reggie Love, who has served as US President Barack Obama's personal assistant for four years, says he is leaving the job to focus his studies.

Custom officials in the Pakistani city of Karachi release 52 falcons they say were unlawfully transported into the country from Qatar.

The eight Republican presidential hopefuls meet for their 10th TV debate, on national security policy, with Newt Gingrich a new front-runner.

Protesters continue to occupy Cairo's Tahrir Square despite Egypt's military rulers promising to speed up the transfer to democratic rule.

South Korea holds ceremonies to remember an attack by the North on Yeonpyeong island a year ago, which sparked an international crisis.

An international survey of landmines finds use of the banned weapon increased in the past year, despite record areas of land being cleared.

Archaeologists in Peru find the bodies of dozens of children thought to have been sacrificed between 600 and 700 years ago.

Two Khmer Rouge leaders on trial for the 1975-79 Cambodian genocide tell the UN-backed court it has no authority to hold the trial.