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A severe water shortage in the Southern Punjab region of Pakistan will be a focal point in talks between India and Pakistan this week.

Energy giant BP is delaying critical tests on a new cap which is supposed to stop the oil from pouring out of a damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico.

Israeli navy vessels are shadowing a Libyan-chartered ship carrying aid for Gaza, despite confusion about its final destination.

An alleged Colombian drug baron who is on Washington's ''most wanted'' list has been handed over to the US by the Venezuelan authorities.

France has moved a step closer to banning women from covering their face with an Islamic veil.

Fans lined the canals of Amsterdam in their thousands to welcome back the World Cup runners up.

The man believed to be the "top boss" of an alleged Italian crime family is among those arrested in a police sweep.

Australian customs officers and police have seized the 5th largest haul of cocaine in the country's history.

A missing Iranian nuclear scientist, who Tehran says was kidnapped a year ago by the CIA, has taken refuge in Iran's section of the Pakistan embassy in Washington.

Italian police arrested at least 300 people on Tuesday on suspicion of crimes including murder, money laundering and belonging to a criminal organisation.

An unexploded suicide vest has been found in Kampala after Sunday's deadly attack on people watching the World Cup final on TV, Ugandan officials say.

A 37-year-old gunman has killed two people before killing himself at an office building in Albuquerque, in the US state of New Mexico, police say.

Oil giant BP says it has placed a new cap on a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico, which it hopes will capture all the leaking oil.

The French parliament is to vote on plans to ban women from wearing full Islamic veils in public.

Cuba ex-President Fidel Castro has made his first TV appearance in 11 months in an interview focusing on foreign affairs.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has gone on national television to dismiss accusations that he received illegal donations from the richest woman in France, Liliane Bettencourt, to finance his 2007 election campaign.

Cuba ex-President Fidel Castro has made his first TV appearance in 11 months in an interview focusing on foreign affairs.

The BBC's Matt Frei reports from Haiti on efforts to rebuild the country, six months after a devastating earthquake.

An Israeli military inquiry into the naval raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla has criticised the tactics its forces employed.

Authorities in Switzerland have decided not to extradite film director Roman Polanski to the US to face sentencing for a case dating back to 1977.