- 140 protestors released from a Tehran jail
- Senate panel endorses Sotomayor's nomination
- Security forces shell Islamic sect leader's home
- At least 260 injured in attack on camp for opposition supporters
- Chavez will 'freeze' ties with Colombia
- Troops to flush out Islamic militants 'once and for all'
- Second parliamentary elections may end political standoff
- Car bomb rips through Civil Guard barracks in Burgos
- Ahmadinejad tells judiciary to free protesters by August 7
- Yahoo! and Microsoft team up to challenge Google
- Peugeot Citroen slumps to first half loss of 962 million euros
- Healthy Sarkozy chairs cabinet meeting before summer break
- Uighur leader claims 10,000 'disappeared' in Urumqi unrest
- Markets regain ground, but job losses continue
- BMW to quit F1 at end of season
- Army in final battle with homegrown ‘Taliban’
- US, China vow closer cooperation at summit end
- Moldova's legislative elections, take two
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the IMF
- Iconic French photo agency on the brink of collapse
- Twenty election 'rioters' to face trial
- Ruling party's Sanha wins presidential election run-off
- Gates urges Kurds, Arabs to resolve disputes before US withdrawal
- Prices fall for the first time in 22 years
- Barzani re-elected, two main Kurdish parties win 57% of vote
- Dublin accepts two Guantanamo detainees
- IMF approves $17 billion loan scheme for low-income countries
- Felipe Massa to be moved out of intensive care
- Iranian resistance group condemns raid on base camp
- WHO rates sunbeds alongside cigarettes as top cancer threat
- League suspended until debt-ridden clubs pay players
- 180 women and children freed in crackdown on Islamic sect
- Schumacher to make sensational return in Valencia
- Phelps breaks own 200m mens butterfly record
- Porsche expect pre-tax loss of 5 billion euros on VW buy
- Sarah Palin's enigma
- IMF chief "appalled" by the return of large banking bonuses
- Fed reports that US economy 'has begun to stabilise'
- Lyon sign Gomis from arch rivals St Etienne
- Military says Islamist sect have fled their base
- Bayern Munich increase Ribery's price tag to 100 million euros