A corporate lawyer is put in charge of Detroit to stave off potentially biggest US municipal bankruptcy / Hope over HIV procedure / Zimbabwe prepares...

Bomb attacks hit Baghdad ministries / South Africa: '28% of schoolgirls HIV positive' / Australia gets first indigenous head of local government.

Cardinals take historic step to choose a non-European Jesuit for Pope / The biggest ever radio telescope has been inaugurated in Chile / Visiting the...

Five policemen dead in Kashmir attack / New research on Neanderthal demise.

First round of conclave inconclusive / Victims of Nigeria's insurgency / Kenya's 22 year old presidential speech writer

Sudan and South Sudan reach oil export deal / British PM says Falklands vote 'clear'.

Election of the new Pope// Interview with Tunsian President//Yemeni child bride sues her father

British medical chief says antibiotic resistance 'as big a risk as terrorism' / Japan marks tsunami second anniversary / Bagpipe fungus.

Japan earthquake 2 years on//Kenyan elected president faces legal challenges//UN considers Syrian human right abuses report//A dying author writes...

Nigeria hostages believed killed, Afghanistan Karzai criticises America, UK human trafficking.