Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers withdraws his candidacy to succeed Ben Bernanke as head of the US central bank, the Federal Reserve.

The most senior woman police officer in Afghanistan's troubled Helmand province is shot and injured by unknown gunmen, an official says.

South Korean workers return to the Kaesong industrial park in North Korea, five months after work was suspended amid severe political tension.

One of the largest salvage operations ever attempted is set to begin in Italy with efforts to pull the shipwrecked Costa Concordia upright.

Veteran Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar is admitted to hospital in the Indian city of Mumbai after suffering a heart attack, doctors say.

A stampede triggered when police in Colombia raided a crowded bar in Bogota has left six people dead and five injured, officials say.

The BBC has obtained new text messages suggesting difficulties in the relationship between Anni Dewani, who was shot dead on her honeymoon in South Africa, and her husband Shrien, who is accused of ordering her murder.

South Korean troops shoot dead a man trying to swim across a border river into the North after he repeatedly ignored warnings to stop, officials say.