- Debt crisis: live
Ratings agency Fitch says Greek debt write-off will constitute a "rating default," as the country's main unions prepare to hold anti-austerity protests later today. - Five-year-old girl among four more bodies found on Costa Concordia
Eight more bodies have been found inside the crippled cruise ship, including that of a five year old girl. - Train crash kills at least 49 in Buenos Aires
An early morning train has crashed into a station platform in Buenos Aires, Argentina killing at least 49 people and injuring hundreds more. - Prostitute claims DSK tried to get her a US visa
A prostitute has claimed that Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to get her a visa to work in the US during his time as head of the International Monetary Fund, it has emerged. - Landmark bridge demolished in US
The Fort Steuben bridge, more than 83-years-old, is violently and swiftly demolished in Steubenville, Ohio. - Europe must provide own security as US shifts focus to Pacific, says Labour
European nations must do more to provide their own security as the US shifts its attention towards China and the Pacific, Labour has warned. - 49 killed and 550 injured in Buenos Aires train derailment
At least 49 people have been killed killed when a packed train slammed into the end of the line at a busy station in Buenos Aires. - Journalists have become targets - Marie Colvin
Speaking presciently at an event for journalists in 2010, the late Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin gives a prescient warning of the dangers facing those working in war zones. - Injured photographer Paul Conroy being treated in Homs
Paul Conroy, 47, was with Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin when she died in an attack on a media centre in Syria. - Ethiopian troops seize important town from al Shabaab
Somali leaders confirmed that Ethiopian troops had captured the former capital of its exiled government today in a morale-boosting victory over al-Qaeda backed insurgents on the eve of the London conference on the country's future. - 550 injured in Buenos Aires train derailment
A morning commute was turned into a scene of carnage on Wednesday after at least 550 people were injured and an unknown number killed when a packed train slammed into the end of the line at a busy station in Buenos Aires. - Bear bile farm in China
Journalists visit a bear bile farm in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China. - EU's unprecedented £417m punishment for Hungary
Hungary is to be stripped of Brussels funding aimed at Europe's poorest regions and worth £417 million next year in punishment for breaking EU rules on budget deficits, under a European Commission proposal. - Russia warns against 'catastrophic' Iran strike
Russia has warned a strike against Iran could have "catastrophic" consequences and urged leaders not to rush into any conclusions after this week's failed mission by UN nuclear experts. - Cristina Kirchner told to leave Falkland Islanders alone, by Argentina's intellectuals
Argentina's president told to allow Islanders to decide future, facing backlash from country's leading intellectuals. - Marie Colvin killed in Homs: tributes to Sunday Times journalist
Tributes have been paid to Marie Colvin, a Sunday Times journalist, who was killed alongside a French photographer in the besieged Syrian city of Homs. - Hamid Karzai uses Koran protests to push US into handing over Bagram prison
Hamid Karzai appeared to try to use deadly protests that have broken out following the burning of Korans at an American airfield to push the US to hand over its biggest prison in Afghanistan. - Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler a fan of yoga
Heinrich Himmler, the infamous Nazi leader of the SS, was enthralled with eastern mysticism and always carried an ancient text on yoga wherever he went, a new book has claimed. - Anonymous 'may soon be able to hack into power grid', warns US national security chief
NSA's Gen Keith Alexander's claims rebuffed by group of hackers. - Remi Ochlik: the French photographer killed alongside Marie Colvin
Remi Ochlik, the French photographer killing alongside Marie Colvin in Syria, was a passionate professional who won praise for getting as "close as possible" to the story. - 28-year-old British sex education book banned in Malaysia
Malaysia has banned the sale of a children's sex education book written by a British author 28 years ago, saying its contents "could threaten moral values". - Marie Colvin killed: Syrian forces had pledged to kill 'any journalist who set foot on Syrian soil'
Intercepted Syrian Army communication reveals direct order for troops to target makeshift press centre in which Sunday Times journalist Colvin died during attack. - Robert Mugabe blocks Cecil John Rhodes exhumation
Robert Mugabe's officials say Cecil John Rhodes legacy is part of the country's colonial history. - Michael Bloomberg defends NYPD surveillance on Muslims
City's police officers after they were found to have launched covert surveillance operations on Muslim student groups. - Syria: Marie Colvin's death reflects the vicious situation in Homs
In one of her last messages, relayed through friends, Marie Colvin said she had never seen anything to compare with what she was experiencing in Homs this week.