Scotland's public health minister writes to the UK health secretary urging support for a pre-watershed ban on junk food adverts.

The government is expected to propose suspending Sunday trading laws on eight occasions from 22 July during the Olympics and Paralympics.

Voters in Guinea-Bissau are set to elect a replacement for former President Malam Bacai Sanha, who died in January after a long illness.

Brazilian prosecutors say they will bring charges against 17 executives from the US oil firm Chevron and a drilling contractor after a new leak.

Five-time Australian Olympic champion Ian Thorpe fails to qualify for London 2012 after finishing 21st in the trials for the 100m freestyle.

Former newsreader Anna Ford accuses the BBC of "tokenism" in the debate over ageism on television.

Ten Colombian soldiers and an officer are killed in an ambush by suspected Farc rebels in the south-east near the border with Venezuela.

Libya formally requests that Mauritania hand over Col Gaddafi's former spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi, also sought by the International Criminal Court and France.