The subtle way the Earth distorts the space around it is measured by a Nasa spacecraft in an ultra-precise confirmation of Einstein's ideas.

There is panic in the port of Misrata as pro-Gaddafi forces shell an aid ship embarking hundreds of fleeing migrant workers and badly injured people.

Conservationists say they are having success in removing rats from South Georgia island - the biggest rodent eradication campaign in history.

A US man who helped persuade a British man and Canadian woman he met online to commit suicide is jailed for nearly a year in Minnesota.

Salvage workers from France prepare to recover more remains from the seabed of the Atlantic ocean, off the Brazilian coast.

Ivory Coast's PM Guillaume Soro describes carnage in Abidjan's Yopougon district, as government troops take control of the last pocket of Gbagbo resistance.

The Dunkin' Brands Group, owner of Dunkin' Donuts, is planning to sell shares in New York to raise up to $400m (£240m).

Former US child star Jackie Cooper, who went on to direct, produce and play the Daily Planet editor in four Superman movies, dies aged 88.