French commandos should be deployed on the ground in Libya, a senior French official suggests, despite a UN resolution that forbids a force of occupation.

Thousands of anti-government protesters have occupied the centre of Syria's third largest city, Homs, demanding a change to the country's leadership.

The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times are each awarded two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism, while online news service ProPublica wins one.

A controversial photograph of a crucifix bathed in urine is vandalised at an art museum in southern France, officials say.

The last moments of a student found dead in her Toronto flat were seen by a friend in China with whom she was having a webcam chat, police say.

Less than two weeks after a gunman shot dead 12 children at a school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian students who survived return to their classrooms.

Police in western India clash with villagers protesting over the proposed construction of a nuclear power plant, killing one person.

The US space agency awards funds to the companies it thinks may be closest to offering commercially run systems to carry American astronauts into space.