The chief executive of
the Royal Opera House and the BBC's former director of news, Tony Hall,
has been appointed the corporation's new director general.
The top US commander in
Afghanistan, Gen John Allen, is being investigated for allegedly sending
"inappropriate emails" to a woman at the centre of a scandal which
ended the career of CIA head David Petraeus.
The remains of Yasser Arafat have been exhumed as part of an investigation into how the Palestinian leader died.
Activists in Syria say a government jet has dropped a cluster bomb on a playground, leaving 10 children dead.
The Financial Services
Authority (FSA) has fined UBS £29.7m ($47.6m) for failings that led to
trader Kweku Adoboli losing £1.4bn.
At least 14 people have died in a major fire at a workshop for disabled people in south-western Germany, reports say.
The body of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is to be exhumed on Tuesday, Palestinian officials say.
The chief executive of
the Royal Opera House and the BBC's former director of news, Tony Hall,
has been appointed the corporation's new director general.
An examining magistrate
is questioning Nicolas Sarkozy over claims his 2007 election campaign
received illegal donations from France's richest woman.
The International
Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Simone Gbagbo, the wife
of Ivory Coast's ex-President Laurent Gbagbo.
Brazilian football star
Bruno Fernandes has gone on trial, accused of ordering the killing of a
former lover whose body has never been found.
A week-old boy has died after being bitten by his family's pet dog.
Twenty-one people have
been injured in a "terrorist attack" on a bus in Israel's commercial
capital Tel Aviv, Israeli officials say.
