The spotlight in Charles Taylor's war crimes trial shifts to supermodel Naomi Campbell when she testifies about an uncut diamond he allegedly sent to her room.
A landmark international treaty to ban cluster munitions took effect on Sunday, requiring signatories to stop the use, production and transfer of the deadly weapons.
Rescue workers and troops in Pakistan struggled to reach thousands of people affected by the country's worst floods in living memory, as the death toll rose to 800.
Ignacio \"Nacho\" Coronel, a top leader of Mexico\'s Sinaloa drug gang, was killed in a military raid in the suburbs of the western city of Guadalajara.
A nursing assistant admitted killing eight of her newborn babies and stashing their tiny remains in plastic bags in a village in northern France, officials said.
Catalonia\'s parliament on Wednesday voted to ban bullfighting from 2012, becoming the first region in mainland Spain to outlaw the centuries-old tradition.