Chevron halts oil production at a Brazilian off-shore field after a second spill of crude from the sea-bed.

Ian Thorpe fails to make the 200m freestyle final at the Australian trials, and he must now hope to qualify in the 100m free.

The US agriculture department relaxes its rules on beef products for school meals, allowing schools to avoid lean mince commonly called "pink slime".

On the first anniversary of Syria's uprising against Bashar al-Assad's regime, the UN announces it will send a humanitarian mission this weekend.

Protesters clash with riot police in Chile's capital, Santiago, as students resume demonstrations to demand radical educational reform.

A severely battered baby girl admitted to hospital in January in the Indian capital, Delhi, dies of a cardiac arrest

The UK criticises Argentina's threats of court action over Falkland Islands oil exploration, calling its behaviour "illegal intimidation".

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban launches a scathing attack on the European Union, accusing it of treating the country as a colony.