VIDEO: Concrete balls to deter 'train surfers'
2012-01-17 17:37:09
Railway staff have begun hanging concrete balls above train tracks in Indonesia to try to stop commuters from riding for free on carriage roofs.

Turkey jails man for Dink murder
2012-01-17 17:35:59
A Turkish court has sentences a man to life in prison for instigating the 2007 killing of prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

VIDEO: Pinochet judge on trial in Madrid
2012-01-17 17:09:33
The Spanish judge who famously indicted late Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet has gone on trial charged with illegally authorising police to bug lawyers' conversations with clients.

Mujuru fire death: 'Police slept'
2012-01-17 13:47:23
An inquest into the death of Zimbabwe's ex-military chief Solomon Mujuru is told a policeman guarding his farm was asleep when the fire broke out.

Seattle braces for huge snowfall
2012-01-17 12:23:00
States in the US Pacific Northwest are bracing for a blizzard that could bring the heaviest snowfall seen in a generation.

Syria rejects intervention call
2012-01-17 11:55:34
Syria's government rejects a call from Qatar for Arab troops to be deployed in the country to end the deadly crackdown on protesters.

Turkish general kept in custody
2012-01-17 11:30:46
A Turkish court rejects a request to free ex-military chief Gen Ilker Basbug as he awaits charges over an alleged coup plot, state media report.

VIDEO: Radical cleric wins deportation appeal
2012-01-17 06:37:38
Radical cleric Abu Qatada has won his appeal against deportation from the UK to Jordan, at the European Court of Human Rights.

El Salvador recalls 1981 massacre
2012-01-17 04:28:19
El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes uses the 20th anniversary of peace accords to apologise for a 1981 massacre that left some 1,000 people dead.

UN to train Syria Arab monitors
2012-01-16 17:56:55
The United Nations is to start providing training to Arab League observers monitoring the crisis in Syria, as violent clashes continue.

Wigan 0-1 Man City
2012-01-16 17:02:59
Edin Dzeko's header helps Manchester City beat Wigan to move three points clear of Manchester United at the top of the Premier League.

Pakistan PM faces contempt charge
2012-01-16 12:43:20
Pakistan's Supreme Court issues a contempt order against Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, raising fresh tensions between the government, courts and army.

VIDEO: The hazards of journalism in Somalia
2012-01-16 12:12:01
Somalia is one of the riskiest countries in the world to be a journalist, with 23 media workers killed since 2007, according to Reporters Without Borders.

French police on trial over death
2012-01-16 11:24:02
Seven police officers go on trial in the south of France over the fatal suffocation of a 22-year-old detainee, Hakim Ajimi, in 2008.

VIDEO: Nigerian protesters suspend strike
2012-01-16 10:55:21
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has made a concession to the strikers who brought the country to a halt last week over the cost of petrol.