The president of Tunisia says recent violent protests over high unemployment levels were "not acceptable", and that rioters would be punished.

England retain the Ashes after beating Australia by an innings and 157 runs in the fourth Test in Melbourne.

The Argentine capital of Buenos Aires is the noisiest city in Latin America, and the fourth loudest in the world, a study finds.

Manatees - large aquatic mammals sometimes called sea-cows - are fleeing the unseasonable cold in the Gulf of Mexico, opting for the warm waters of power plant discharge canals.

West African leaders end their Ivory Coast mission with incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo refusing to cede power to his election rival, Allasane Ouattara.

Cuba's Supreme Tribunal commutes the sentence of Humberto Eladio Real, the country's last death row inmate, a rights group says.

Around 1,000 people are evacuated as the worst flooding in decades wreaks havoc across north-eastern Australia.

England clean up Australia's tail to win the fourth Test in Melbourne and retain the Ashes for the first time in 24 years with a match to spare.