Libya sentences Gaddafi's son to death
A Libyan court has sentenced former dictator Muammar Gaddafi's son Seif al-Islam and eight other defendants to death for crimes during the 2011 uprising.
Former intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi and Gaddafi's last prime minister, Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmudi, were also among those sentenced to death.
Seif al-Islam was not in court because he is held in the southwestern hill town of Zintan by militia opposed to the Tripoli authorities.
The trial, which opened in the Libyan capital in April last year, has been dogged by criticism from human rights watchdogs and an unresolved dispute with the International Criminal Court in The Hague over jurisdiction in the case of Seif al-Islam.
The 37 defendants were charged with crimes including murder and complicity in incitement to rape during the 2011 uprising that toppled the dictatorship.
UK peer resigns over cocaine footage
A British peer has quit the House of Lords and apologised for his behaviour after footage emerged of him allegedly taking cocaine with two prostitutes.
Lord Sewel has bowed to intense pressure to resign from Parliament following the drugs and sex scandal, exposed in the Sun newspaper.
The married former Labour minister has apologised for the "pain and embarrassment" he has caused.
The Metropolitan Police began an investigation and raided Lord Sewel's home yesterday evening, two days after the allegations first surfaced.
Body of Antrim man who died in Ibiza to be brought home
The body of a Co Antrim man who died suddenly in Ibiza last week is expected to be flown to Dublin later today.
A post-mortem examination carried out by Spanish authorities concluded that 21-year-old Alan Drennan had died from organ failure.
However, friends who were on holiday with him claimed he told them he was assaulted by Spanish police after he was escorted off the plane he was travelling on when it landed in Ibiza.
A second post-mortem is to be carried out on Mr Drennan’s body.
Two policemen killed in Bahrain explosion
An explosion has killed two policemen and wounded six others in a Shia-dominated area of Bahrain, the interior ministry said, describing it as a "terror" attack.
The blast in Sitra island, the scene of frequent clashes between security forces and Shia demonstrators, comes days after the Sunni-ruled kingdom announced it had foiled an attempt to smuggle weapons from Iran.
Police blocked routes leading into the island following the explosion - the latest in a series of blasts that have recently targeted police in Shia villages, witnesses said.
Shia-led protests since 2011 demanding reforms in the Sunni-minority ruled Gulf kingdom have sparked clashes with security forces in which at least 89 people have been killed, human rights groups say.
Archaeologists find 560,000 year-old human tooth
A 16-year-old French volunteer archaeologist has found an adult tooth dating back around 560,000 years in southwestern France, in what researchers hailed as a "major discovery".
"A large adult tooth - we can't say if it was from a male or female - was found during excavations of soil we know to be between 550,000 and 580,000 years old, because we used different dating methods," paleoanthropologist Amelie Viallet said.
"This is a major discovery because we have very few human fossils from this period in Europe," she said.
The tooth was found at one of the world's most important prehistoric sites in Tautavel, which has been excavated for about 50 years.
It is also the site of the discovery of fossils belonging to Tautavel Man, a species that lived an estimated 450,000 years ago.
