Nato agrees to a "graduated re-engagement" with Moscow,four months after talks were frozen over Russia's war with Georgia.

The US warned India about a possible threat before last week's Mumbai attacks, US media reports say.

Thai anti-government protesters agree to end their occupation of Bangkok's airports, letting thousands of tourists leave.

A cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe has killed at least 484 people between August and the end of November, the UN says.

Fresh evidence could help identify new suspects in the assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri, the UN body investigating the case says.

The brother-in-law of actress Jennifer Hudson is charged with murdering three of her relatives including her seven-year-old nephew.

The UN Security Council extends authorisation for countries to enter Somali waters to stop acts of piracy.

US carmakers General Motors, Ford and Chrysler present their new cost-cutting plans to Congress.

Jewish settlers riot in the West Bank city of Hebron, clashing with Israeli troops who normally protect them.

An American footballer who scored the Super Bowl's winning touchdown faces criminal charges for shooting himself in the leg.

Germany's male inmates must have equal rights with female convicts to spend money on cosmetics, a court rules.

At least five England players have told former Test bowler Dominic Cork they will not go back to India for the Test series after the Mumbai terror attacks.

A brace from midfielder Kevin McDonald sends Championship Burnley into the semi-finals of the Carling Cup.

Prosecutor tells BBC why he had to quit Guantanamo

Attacks in Mumbai highlight Indian security failings

Why Ethiopia is pulling its troops out of Somalia

Airport protests have damaged Thailand's economy

Making a success selling ice cream to Siberians

Readers caught out by Venice floods send in their shots

One of Rwanda's most famous singers is jailed for 15 years for inciting the 1994 genocide.

An ambulance service starts in the Somali capital for the first time in nearly two decades.

Canada's opposition parties join forces to try to topple PM Stephen Harper and his minority Conservative government.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declares a fiscal emergency, ordering lawmakers to fix a huge budget gap.

China's dairy exports have all but ground to a halt following the scandal earlier this year when milk was tainted with melamine.

Prosecutors request a 15-year jail term for an ex-spy chief accused of ordering a murder, but are accused of leniency.

EU police and justice officials will start deploying throughout Kosovo next week, including to Serb-majority areas.

France's former world champion athlete Eunice Barber is fined for resisting arrest and biting a policeman.

Thousands of people attend funerals in Israel for Jewish and Israeli victims of the Mumbai attacks.

An Iraqi court sentences Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as Chemical Ali, to death for his role in crushing a 1991 Shia uprising.

More than a dozen protesters angry at being "dropped" from the civil service are detained in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka.

A bomb has exploded on a passenger train in India's north-eastern state of Assam, killing at least three people.

How a BBC reporter's 12-year-old daughter set up a scoop interview with the Somali pirates.

Andrew Harding reflects on his friendship with Burmese comedian Zarganar who, despite repeated arrests and imprisonment, continues to make jokes about the country's military rule.

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