Madoff under curfew on $10m bail
Alleged hedge fund fraudster Bernard Madoff puts up $10m (£6.4m) bail and is placed under house arrest.
Obama plans Guantanamo deadline
Barack Obama says he aims to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre within two years of becoming president.
Chrysler plants close for a month
The struggling US carmaker Chrysler is to halt all production at its 30 plants for a month starting on Friday.
UN chief rules out Somalia force
The time is not right to send United Nations peacekeepers to Somalia, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said.
Microsoft issues patch to fix IE
Microsoft releases a patch to stop cyber criminals exploiting a vulnerability in its Internet Explorer 7 browser
Opec agrees record oil output cut
Oil cartel Opec agrees to make its biggest output cut, slashing 2.2 million barrels per day to prop up prices.
Blackwater 'could lose Iraq role'
Blackwater could lose its license to operate in Iraq, so the US must find other ways to protect its diplomats, a US report says.
UK troops to leave Iraq 'by July'
British troops are to be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of July, Gordon Brown says on a visit to Baghdad.
Stanford reviews series future
Sir Allen Stanford is to consider the future of the Super Series but pledges to continue working with the England and Wales Cricket Board.
Hamburg 3-1 Aston Villa
Aston Villa will face a group winner in the last 32 of the Uefa Cup after their second-string side is well beaten in Hamburg.
Thirty years on
The effect of Deng Xiaoping's reforms on modern China
Widows' Village
Crisis in Central African Republic as bandits kill men
Overseas sales boost Nike profits
Three-month profits grow at the US sportswear company Nike, despite weak sales in its home market.
Bahrain 'foils terrorist attack'
Several people allegedly planning bomb attacks during Bahrain's national celebrations have been arrested, officials say.
Fears raised over new vCJD wave
Doctors fear a new wave of the human form of "mad cow disease" is about to hit Britain, BBC Newsnight has learned.
Flaw theory over Mars Beagle loss
The loss of the UK-led Mars probe Beagle 2 could have been due to a flawed calculation that led to it burning up, says a new report.
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