Lighting is restored in the control room of a badly-damaged Japanese nuclear reactor, raising hopes of reconnecting vital power to the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.

Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi appears at a recently bombed site in Tripoli and says "we will be victorious in the end".

A copyright deal between Google and publishers over the web firm's publication of books online is torpedoed by a US court.

As the world focuses on Libya and Japan, UN aid agencies are warning that Ivory Coast is rapidly becoming a forgotten humanitarian catastrophe.

Canadian opposition parties say they will vote against the Conservative government's budget, a move that could trigger an election.

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera says he will ask the US for classified documents relating to human rights violations under Gen Augusto Pinochet.

At least four people have died after security forces fired on protesters outside a mosque in the Syrian city of Deraa, human rights activists say.

Justin Bieber and U2 are among artists who have agreed to contribute songs to a fund-raising album for victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.