The UN Security Council's Taliban sanctions committee adds the Pakistan-based Haqqani network, accused of attacks in Afghanistan, to its blacklist.

Cuba accuses the US of helping Cuban dissidents access the internet as part of a campaign to undermine the communist government.

Activists and ex-political prisoners in Paraguay demonstrate against plans to repatriate the remains of former military ruler Gen Alfredo Stroessner.

Greece braces for a 48-hour general strike with marches planned in Athens, as MPs debate more austerity measures aimed at staving off bankruptcy.

An Istanbul court will start the trial in absentia of four Israeli military commanders over the storming of a Turkish boat sailing to Gaza in 2010.

A US judge dismisses Apple's case in which it alleged that Google's Motorola unit was seeking excessive royalty payments for patents.

An orphaned kangaroo joey charms the Duchess of Cornwall as she and the Prince of Wales begin a six-day tour of Australia to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

Gerald Tremblay, mayor of Canada's second-largest city Montreal, resigns amid a deepening corruption scandal.