Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi says he will not quit over allegations of using an under-age prostitute and accuses magistrates of spying on him.

A 32-year-old man is charged with murdering Bristol landscape architect Jo Yeates.

An underwater fibre-optic cable linking Venezuela and Cuba is being laid on the seabed in a move to improve telephone and internet services to Cuba.

A key ally of Ivory Coast's disputed leader Laurent Gbagbo resigns as head of the Central Bank of West African States amid regional pressure.

Tunisians step up calls for interim Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi to resign because of his links to the Ben Ali regime.

Police in Honduras say they have arrested six of their own officers, who they accuse of robbing a bank at gunpoint.

A man dies after setting himself on fire in south-western Saudi Arabia, apparently mimicking the suicide of a man in Tunisia which provoked an anti-government uprising there.

Albanian prosecutors issue arrest warrants for six members of the republican guard, as three people killed in anti-government unrest are buried.