Some farmers are hoping cutting edge technology will transform farming in Sudan.

US Vice-President Joe Biden meets the South Korean president, with China's air zone and developments in North Korea high on the agenda.

South Africans and world leaders pay tribute to Nelson Mandela, who led the transition from white minority rule and has died aged 95.

Australian airline Qantas sees its credit rating downgraded to below-investment level, or junk, by the ratings agency Standard & Poor's.

Police in Australia lose a ring swallowed by a suspect in a jewellery shop theft, amid "gaps" in search procedures.

Egyptian Muslim cleric Abu Omar, abducted by the CIA in Italy in 2003, is given a six-year jail term in absentia in Milan for terror offences.

England's hopes of retaining the Ashes take a battering as Australia seize control of the second Test in Adelaide.

Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank, raises its forecasts for German economic growth in 2013 and 2014.