Serbia's president says the investigation into arrested Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic will focus on those who protected him.

Several towns in Austria are checking their archives to see if Adolf Hitler is still an honorary citizen of their communities, the BBC's Bethany Bell in Vienna reports.

A Rwandan opposition party accuses the government of forcing people to exhume remains of relatives killed during the 1994 genocide.

US actor Jeff Conaway, who played Kenickie in the 70s film Grease and Bobby in the TV comedy series Taxi, dies aged 60.

Unrest flares in the south-eastern Peruvian city of Puno, with indigenous protesters demanding an end to foreign mining on their land.

The last ever space-walk in the 30-year history of the US shuttle programme is completed at the International Space Station.

The first funeral for a confirmed victim of last week's devastating tornado in the US state of Missouri is held, as the death toll rises to 132.

An anchor from what is believed to be the wreck of notorious English pirate Blackbeard's flagship is lifted off North Carolina's coast.