Russian Mikhail Youzhny beat Slovakian Lukas Lacko 6-2 6-3 to win the Zagreb Indoors for his second career ATP final

There is no change at the top of the Italian football league after draws for both Juventus and AC Milan.

Egypt is upgrading a prison hospital in Cairo where former president Hosni Mubarak will shortly be moved to.

Fellow cyclists and officials wish Lance Armstrong well after a two-year US government probe failed to find evidence he used performance-enhancing drugs.

Poor Filipino villagers may have been used by the military to track down Abu Sayyaf commander Umbra Jumdail, who was killed in an air strike last week.

Czech top seed Tomas Berdych won the Montpellier ATP event, beating defending champion Gael Monfils of France 6-2 4-6 6-3 in the final.

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro makes rare public appearance to launch memoir.

Mitt Romney's easy win in Nevada had some of his competitors looking elsewhere for hope.

Alleged mastermind behind the July 7, 2005, London bombings reportedly freed in Syria.

Russian Mikhail Youzhny beat Slovakian Lukas Lacko 6-2 6-3 to win the Zagreb Indoors for his second career ATP final

There is no change at the top of the Italian football league after draws for both Juventus and AC Milan.

Egypt is upgrading a prison hospital in Cairo where former president Hosni Mubarak will shortly be moved to.

Fellow cyclists and officials wish Lance Armstrong well after a two-year US government probe failed to find evidence he used performance-enhancing drugs.

Poor Filipino villagers may have been used by the military to track down Abu Sayyaf commander Umbra Jumdail, who was killed in an air strike last week.

Czech top seed Tomas Berdych won the Montpellier ATP event, beating defending champion Gael Monfils of France 6-2 4-6 6-3 in the final.

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro makes rare public appearance to launch memoir.

Mitt Romney's easy win in Nevada had some of his competitors looking elsewhere for hope.

Alleged mastermind behind the July 7, 2005, London bombings reportedly freed in Syria.

BOSNIAN authorities used helicopters to evacuate sick people and deliver food, as the death toll from Europe's cold snap rose.

AN explosion and fire ripped through a housing complex for US Marines, leaving one woman dead and two severely injured.

A CAR bomb exploded just outside the police headquarters of a southern Afghanistan city, killing at least seven people.

A FLIGHT with 135 people on board, including the Norwegian Crown Prince and Princess, has been evacuated in Copenhagen.

UPDATE:  REPUBLICAN presidential front-runner Mitt Romney has cruised to victory in Nevada, notching a second straight triumph.

KEVIN Rudd has made international headlines by telling Europe it has turned in on itself and risks an ''early grave''.

INDONESIA has detained 96 asylum seekers who had attempted to reach Australia, after their boat capsized in Java waters.

MORE than 300 people reportedly died in the Syrian protest hub of Homs when government forces attacked anti-government areas.

AN American woman kidnapped in Egypt said her captors were ''very nice'' and she was treated like family.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Protesters demanding a swift presidential election and an early handover of power by the army hurled rocks at police guarding the Egyptian Interior Ministry Sunday and were forced back with volleys of teargas.

Egypt is upgrading a prison hospital in Cairo where former president Hosni Mubarak will shortly be moved to.

KIEV/LONDON (Reuters) - Bitterly cold weather sweeping across Europe claimed more victims on Sunday, brought widespread disruption to transport services, and left thousands without power with warnings that low temperatures would continue into next week.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will target any country used as a launchpad for attacks against its soil, the deputy Revolutionary Guards commander said, expanding Tehran's range of threats in an increasingly volatile stand-off with world powers over its nuclear ambitions.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's interior minister has ordered Cairo's Tora prison hospital to make preparations to receive former President Hosni Mubarak, who has till now been held in a military hospital while he has been standing trial, Al Jazeera television said Sunday.

CAIRO (AFP) - Protesters and police fought pitched battles on Sunday at security headquarters in Cairo as deadly clashes raged into a fourth day and the interior minister leapt to the defence of his reviled forces.

Poor Filipino villagers may have been used by the military to track down Abu Sayyaf commander Umbra Jumdail, who was killed in an air strike last week.

DAMASCUS (AFP) - Outrage grew on Sunday after Russia and China blocked a UN Security Council resolution condemning Syria for its crackdown on protests, with the opposition saying it handed the regime a "licence to kill."

ATHENS (AFP) - Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos held an emergency meeting with political allies on Sunday after hours of "superhuman" negotiations with EU-IMF bailout auditors failed to produce a rescue deal.

PRINCE William has begun a tour of duty as a search and rescue pilot in the Falkland Islands, further heating already simmering tensions.

PROTESTERS and police have fought pitched battles at security headquarters in Cairo as deadly clashes raged into a fourth day.

ARAB leaders and officials have attacked the UN after Russia and China blocked a resolution condemning the Damascus regime.

LIBYA put 41 loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi on trial today, in the first legal proceedings launched against members of the former regime.

HEALTH workers to cull thousands of chickens following the discovery of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in Himalayan country.

RACIAL outbursts at New Zealand Prime Minister John Key this morning, failed to dampen Waitangi celebrations today.

STRONG winds forced rescuers to suspend their search for survivors of the ferry disaster off the coast of Papua New Guinea.

FORMER Cuban leader Fidel Castro has appeared in public for the first time in 10 months at a ceremony to launch his two-volume memoir Time Guerrilla, Cuban media have reported.

A NINE-year-old student has been suspended indefinitely after imitating Michael Jackson's famous dance move.