Mexican forces arrest Mario Cardenas Guillen, a suspected leader of one of the country's drug gangs, the Gulf Cartel.

The US Justice Department accuses BP of "gross negligence and wilful misconduct" over the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Former Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni is charged with corruption, after officials say he failed to explain how he came to have $3m in assets.

A Chinese man accused of swallowing a diamond at a gem exhibition in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, is arrested for attempted theft, police say.

Pirates hijack a Singapore-owned oil tanker off the coast of Nigeria, a navy spokesman confirms to the BBC.

At least 31 people are killed in a massive blaze at a fireworks factory in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, police say.

Security forces shell several opposition-held districts in Syria's second city of Aleppo, leaving at least 19 people dead, activists say.

German ministers are to join Israeli survivors of the Munich massacre at an airport near the city to mark the 40th anniversary of the event.