Argentina will make a formal complaint to the UN about British "militarisation" around the disputed Falkland Islands, says President Fernandez.

Mitt Romney is way behind Rick Santorum in Minnesota and Missouri's Republican presidential nominating contests, according to early results.

Karen Handel, vice-president at Susan G Komen for the Cure, resigns over the charity's reversal of a decision to cut funding from Planned Parenthood.

Jamaica throws about 2,000 illegal firearms into a furnace as part of a programme to reduce gun trafficking and violent crime on the island.

A missile attack by an unmanned US drone aircraft in north-west Pakistan kills eight people, Pakistani security officials say.

MPs say spending cuts raise concerns over the UK's ability to launch another mission on the same scale as the operation in Libya.

Syria's opposition dismisses assurances that President Assad is committed to ending the violence sweeping the country.

A Syrian and a German-Lebanese man are arrested in Germany on suspicion of spying on opponents of President Bashar al-Assad's government.