Pakistan's president nominates Textiles Minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin as candidate for PM after Yousuf Raza Gilani was disqualified from office, reports say.

A week of recent tribal clashes in mountainous parts of western Libya left 105 people dead and some 500 injured, the government says.

Six lions are killed on the outskirts of Nairobi after straying into a residential area of the Kenyan capital and being hunted down by locals.

Former Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase shoots himself in the neck hours after a jail sentence against him on corruption charges is upheld.

The father of ex-Chilean President Michelle Bachelet probably died as a result of torture after the 1973 coup led by Pinochet, a judge says.

A senior Ukrainian Olympic official filmed by the BBC offering 2012 tickets for cash is expelled by his country's National Olympic Committee.

A Dutch court has ordered Apple to pay damages to rival Samsung Electronics for infringing a patent held by the South Korean firm.

An Indonesian court is to deliver its verdict in the case of one of the alleged key figures in the 2002 Bali bombings, Umar Patek.