India's mobile phone firms bid almost $10bn in a key auction for the country's second-generation (2G) telecoms licences.

Conservation scientists in Chicago produce a stunning visualisation of how they think a Renoir painting might have looked before its colours faded.

Jewish advocates call for the publication of a list of artworks found in Salzburg which may include works stolen or extorted under the Nazis.

A track worker at the Sochi Winter Olympics is airlifted to hospital with leg injuries after being hit by a bobsleigh, officials in the Russian city say.

Facebook announces that it will allow users to customise their gender, after consulting on the subject with gay and transgender advocacy groups.

Gunmen attack the main prison in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, killing at least 10 people and releasing a number of inmates, officials say.

Some 200,000 people are told to evacuate their homes in Indonesia after a volcano erupts on the island of Java.

UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos urges the Security Council to act on Syria to stop "flagrant" violation of international humanitarian law.