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At least 34 people are killed when gunmen open fire and throw explosives at a cattle market in north-eastern Nigeria, officials say.

BEIJING (AP) -- The rural Chinese activist at the center of a diplomatic standoff between Washington and Beijing now wants to leave China with his family, a U.S. spokeswoman said....

French President Nicolas Sarkozy believes Sunday's presidential election run-off against Francois Hollande will be decided by the tightest margin.

Roads become impassable in several places across Essex and Suffolk after overnight rain causes flooding.

More than 8,500 Brazilian troops are being deployed in a vast area of the Amazon to tackle drug trafficking, logging and illegal mining.

Germany warns Ukraine again over jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, but Poland opposes any boycott.

A U.S. drone hit an al Qaeda training site in southern Yemen, killing 13 suspected militants, three security officials said.

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's top military officer has threatened to deal a pre-emptive strike on U.S.-led NATO missile defense facilities in Eastern Europe if Washington goes ahead with its controversial missile defense plan....

NEW YORK (AP) -- It's a scream that's still reverberating around the world....

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Witnesses have described in chilling detail how mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik tricked them into believing he was a policeman on a ferry to Utoya island where he killed 69 people in a shooting spree on July 22....

Conservative MP Louise Mensch criticises "immoral and misogynistic" Twitter users for subjecting her to abuse over her stance on Rupert Murdoch.

The UK Border Force failed to meet its target for processing Heathrow arrivals from outside the European Economic Area in April, BAA says.

Administrators say they understand Bill Miller has been given assurances that Rangers will continue in the SPL.

At least four people are killed as Syrian security forces and militiamen raid student accommodation in the second city, Aleppo, activists say.

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Two car bombs in Iraq's capital killed at least 26 people Saturday on the last day of a Shiite pilgrimage already hit by multiple bombings. The blasts, one in a heavily guarded area close to a revered shrine, raised the week's death toll to more than 100 and cast further doubt on the divided government's ability to secure the country after the American withdrawal....

A 57-year-old former officer has been arrested by police investigating corrupt payments in relation to the phone-hacking scandal, the Met Police says.

The owner of a Tunisian TV station is fined for showing a controversial and award-winning animated film, Persepolis.

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp is to join the BBC Sport team as a pundit during Euro 2012.

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- A lawyer says a Tunisian court has fined the head of a private TV station for allegedly disrupting public order by airing an animated film that some religious groups claim violates Islamic principles....

Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga warns that the emergence of ethnically-based political groups could spell doom ahead of elections due next year.