Planned military parade is cancelled in Yemen

Private firm sends spacecraft toward ISS

17:22US company SpaceX has become the first private enterprise to send its own spacecraft toward the International Space Station.

•  Space-X launches Dragon capsule
•  First commercial flight to ISS - TCD astrophysicist Prof Peter Gallagher

90 dead as suicide bomber strikes parade in Yemen

21 MayAt least 90 people are now known to have died in this morning's suicide bomb attack in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.

•  Suicide bomber strikes Yemen capital
•  Suicide bombing at Yemeni military parade rehearsal

Ban Ki-moon warns of conflict risk in Lebanon

17:08UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern that violence from the 14-month conflict in Syria could spread to neighbouring Lebanon.

Fake drugs damaging global fight against malaria

16:22Low quality and fake anti-malarial drugs flooding into markets in Asia and Africa are driving drug resistance and threatening gains made in the fight against the disease in the past decade.

NATO signals end of Afghan war in sight

21 MayNATO leaders sealed a landmark agreement to hand control of Afghanistan over to its own security forces by the middle of next year.

•  Afghanistan on NATO meeting agenda
•  NATO promises to pull out of Afghanistan next year

Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb dies at 62

21 MayBee Gees singer Robin Gibb, who with brothers Barry and Maurice helped define the disco era, has died. He was 62.

•  Broadcaster Larry Gogan reacts to death of Bee Gees' singer Robin Gibb
•  Tributes paid to Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb

11 Albanian university students die in bus crash

21 MayAt least 11 Albanian university students were killed and 22 others injured when their bus plunged hundreds of feet into a ravine.

Leaders at G8 summit want 'growth & job creation'

20 MayUS President Barack Obama has said the G8 summit this weekend has made genuine progress in efforts to chart a way out of the economic crisis - particularly in the eurozone.

•  G8 summit makes 'genuine progress' for eurozone crisis
•  Richard Downes reports on the G8 summit in Chicago

At least two killed in Beirut violence

21 MayAt least two people have been killed in Beirut following heavy clashes between rival Sunni Muslim gunmen.