Rowdy scenes break out at stores across the US as shoppers jostle to buy Nike's new Air Jordans, echoing violence over the shoe in the early 1990s.

Tunisia's constituent assembly approves a cabinet proposed by new PM Hamadi Jebali, two months after the country first post-revolution polls.

Interpol says it is seeking arrest of Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of the French firm at the centre of a global breast implants scare.

Cuban President Raul Castro says 2,900 prisoners, including some convicted of political crimes, will be in the next few days as a goodwill gesture.

The Japanese kanji "kizuna", meaning bonds or connections between people, comes top of a public poll for the character that best sums up 2011.

Conjoined twins have been born in Brazil with two heads, two functioning brains and two backbones - but a single heart.

Brazil fines US oil giant Chevron $5.4m (£3.5m) for breach of its environmental licence when it tackled an oil spill in November.

The UN Security Council condemns suicide blasts that killed 44 peoplein Syria's capital Damascus, but remains divided over months-long protests.