Uganda's president says concern for gay rights should not affect development aid, and that infrastructure is more important.

The UN Security Council lifts sanctions on Libya's central bank to ease a cash crisis in the post-Gaddafi country, diplomats say.

Mahn Nyein Maung, an ethnic Karen rebel leader, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for "unlawful association", reports from Burma say.

Two men who murdered a Welsh couple on honeymoon in Antigua are given three consecutive life sentences for theirs and a shopkeeper's murder, but escape the death penalty.

A court in Brazil rules in favour of the company behind a multi-billion dollar dam project, allowing work on the Belo Monte dam to go ahead.

Former US baseball star Barry Bonds avoids a prison sentence after he misled a jury investigating whether he took performance-enhancing drugs.

US lawmakers agree to extend a payroll tax break for two months, as Republicans win their fight to attach a provision on a controversial oil pipeline.

The Syrian National Council, a coalition of groups opposed to President Assad, opens its first congress in Tunisia, as violence in Syria continues.