A Palestinian woman has died after inhaling gas fired by Israeli troops during a protest against the West Bank barrier at Bilin on Friday, medics say.

The Iranian woman convicted of adultery and helping her lover murder her husband says she is to sue two German journalists arrested after interviewing her son.

The first oil pipeline linking the world's biggest oil producer, Russia, and the world's biggest consumer of energy, China, begins operation.

A 33-year-old car owned by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that has been put up for auction reportedly attracts an offer of $1m (£640,000).

Spain sees the introduction of strict new anti-smoking rules that are among the toughest in Europe.

A woman swept from a bridge in her car becomes the first victim of widespread flooding in the Australian state of Queensland.

US talk-show host Oprah Winfrey launches her own TV network, which will offer round-the-clock lifestyle and reality programmes.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shake hands in an apparently amicable encounter at a time of tension between the two countries.