The US army presents an award for valour to 93-year-old Belgian Augusta Chiwy for her bravery as a nurse during WWII.

US home improvement retailer Lowe's is facing a backlash after it pulled advertisements from a reality show featuring Muslim-American families.

Tunisia's Constituent Assembly elects Moncef Marzouki, a former human rights activist and opposition leader as the country's president.

The US security firm at the centre of allegations that its guards killed civilians in Iraq is changing its name once more, to Academi.

An explosion at a steel factory in Iran has killed seven people including foreign nationals, Iranian state media say.

A retired French colonel killed himself to protest against "indifference" to the plight of Laos's Hmong minority, French media report.

A traveller "from Asia" makes a record purchase at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport, spending nearly 50,000 euros on six bottles of exclusive wine.

The Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh tells the BBC he will rule for "one billion years", if God wills.