The security forces of Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi detain and beat up a BBC team trying to reach the strife-torn western city of Zawiya.

Kenya says it will challenge the International Criminal Court's right to try six Kenyans suspected of being behind post-poll violence in 2008.

Palestine plays its first ever competitive international football match on home ground - but loses the historic match on a penalty shootout to Thailand.

Ten suspected Mexican gang members are charged in the US with the murders last year of three people with ties to an American consulate in Mexico.

The precise details of how kangaroos bounce are now being laid bare, thanks to new technology.

Republicans in the US state of Wisconsin pass a plan that will limit the power of trade unions, after using a procedural move to sidestep Democrats.

The Dalai Lama announces his long-awaited plan to devolve political responsibilities to an elected figure, in a speech marking the 1959 Tibetan uprising.

The head of the US State Department's Japan desk is replaced after he made disparaging remarks about Okinawa, the site of US military bases.