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Bangladesh pull off a shock win in the World Cup, inflicting a second defeat on England that leaves their progress to the quarter-finals in serious doubt.
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South Africa make it two wins out of two in World Cup Group B with a commanding 231-run win against the Netherlands in Mohali.
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50 years ago, Ruby Bridges made history as the first African-American to attend an all-white elementary school in the American South.
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Marathon world record holder Haile Gebrselassie announces he will race again after reversing his decision to retire from athletics.
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Preview followed by live coverage of Thursday's game between Napoli and Liverpool in the Europa League.
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An overview of the sole French territory in North America
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Mark Lawrenson's predictions for the opening weekend of the Premier League season
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John Hantz is soft spoken, meticulously polite and ferociously ambitious. For his latest plan, he has to be. This multi millionaire, financial tycoon wants to turn destitute Detroit into the world's largest urban farm.
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Uruguay's Luis Suarez says "the 'hand of God' now belongs to me" after his goal-line handball that helped his country reach the World Cup semi-finals.
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The BBC's Daniel Gallas and Vladimir Hernandez assess the outstanding performances from South American teams in South Africa
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Key facts and figures from Brazil, showing wealth and population distribution, as well as its GDP growth.
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A report into a private jet crash in which five people were killed finds a missing rivet may have led to the shutdown of an engine.
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The man accused of attempting to bomb New York's Times Square appears in court for the first time since his arrest.
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At least 12 people die after a bomb on a bicycle explodes near a police vehicle in the Pakistani town of Dera Ismail Khan.
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As flights slowly begin to take off again in Europe after days of travel chaos, Matt Frei, presenter of BBC World News America, reflects on the beauty and pain of travel - both by air and by ground.
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The political fallout from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is already becoming apparent, the BBC's Paul Adams in Louisiana finds.
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Firms in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster will present conflicting claims at the first US Senate hearing, US media say.
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Images from the flooding that has submerged parts of the historic Tennessee city of Nashville.
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Actor Michael Douglas tells a US TV show he believes his son's recent prison sentence for drug dealing and possessing heroin is "adequate".
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Linda Pressly journeys from Lima to the Peruvian Amazon to ask if a controversial economic theory can improve the lives of slum-dwellers and indigenous Amazonian Indians alike.
