Blast hits Pakistan sports crowd 1.1.2010 15:38:50 GMT A suspected suicide bomber strikes at a volleyball pitch in north-west Pakistan, killing at least 40 people, officials say.
Mousavi 'ready to die' for reform 1.1.2010 14:40:50 GMT Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi says he is ready to die for Iranian reform, days after his nephew was killed in protests.
Iraq attacks US Blackwater move 1.1.2010 14:25:5 GMT Iraq angrily criticises the dismissal of charges against five guards from US security firm Blackwater accused of killing 17 civilians.
Brazil mudslide kills at least 10 1.1.2010 15:46:59 GMT At least 10 people are dead after a mudslide at a tourist resort close to the resort of Angra dos Reis.
CIA bomber 'courted as informant' 1.1.2010 13:15:55 GMT The bomber who killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan was invited to the base as a potential informant, officials say.
Iraq civilian death toll 'down' 1.1.2010 15:41:8 GMT Violence against civilians in Iraq dropped dramatically in 2009, a report by an independent monitoring group says.
US 'bomber' began trip in Ghana 1.1.2010 12:11:40 GMT The man accused of attempting to blow up an airliner on Christmas Day began his journey in Ghana not Lagos, Nigeria says.
Man arrested over missing Degas 1.1.2010 15:32:36 GMT Police have arrested a man following the theft of an artwork by the Edgar Degas at a museum in Marseilles.
DNA analysed from early European 1.1.2010 3:40:10 GMT Scientists have analysed DNA extracted from the remains of a 30,000-year-old European hunter-gatherer.
Cartoon pokes fun at Putin and Medvedev 1.1.2010 15:29:26 GMT Moscow's leading men are gently lampooned in a New Year's special cartoon broadcast on Russian television.
