Sixteen people, including children, are killed when their vehicle is blown up in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, officials say.

A cloud of ash spewed from a volcano in Chile continues to ground flights in Argentina, Uruguay and now southern Brazil.

Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader, will present the 2011 Reith Lectures along with Eliza Manningham-Buller, former head of MI5.

A woman whose face was torn off by a chimpanzee in 2009 is recovering after receiving a full facial and double hand transplant.

Finnish football is rocked by a match-fixing scandal which has implications across the world.

Colombia's president passes a controversial law that aims to compensate an estimated four million victims of the country's 47-year armed conflict.

Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, suspected of having played a key role in the 1998 US embassy bombings in East Africa, is killed in Somalia, officials say.

A US congressman who admitted sending lewd photos of himself to women says he wants a leave of absence from Congress to seek professional help.