Security officials in Brazil say a former fire chief wanted in connection with nine suspected vengeance killings turns himself in to the authorities.

The African Union is setting up a panel of heads of state to seek a solution to the crisis in Ivory Coast over disputed presidential election results.

Pakistan hosts its first skiing tournament since 2009 in the Swat Valley - the area previously controlled by the Taliban.

Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi calls for world business leaders to promote democracy and growth in her country, which she says has been "left behind".

Former South African President Nelson Mandela is recovering at home after spending two nights in hospital with a respiratory infection.

An explosion at a coal mine in Sardinata in north-eastern Colombia kills 21 workers - the second deadly blast there in three years.

Haiti's electoral council says final results of the first round of presidential elections will be announced on Wednesday, and a run-off held on 20 March.

The deputy provincial governor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province has been killed in a suicide attack, officials say.