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The Cuban postal service announces it will not accept post of any kind bound for the United States until further notice.

Tunisia's main trade union calls for the government formed after President Ben Ali's fall to be replaced by one without people linked with his regime.

The US congresswoman shot in the head in an attack in Arizona in which six people died is moved to a rehabilitation centre in Texas.

President Barack Obama pledges to put the economy "into overdrive", as he announces the head of a new competitiveness panel.

The International Monetary Fund approves a two-year, $30bn credit facility with Poland as a "precautionary" measure.

Three people are killed in the Albanian capital Tirana during clashes between police and thousands of opposition supporters.

Human rights groups have condemned the apparent execution of suspected robbers by the police in Kenya.

The brother of a Harry Potter film actress who assaulted her because her boyfriend was not Muslim is jailed for six months.

The US congresswoman shot in the head in an attack in Arizona in which six people died is moved to a rehabilitation centre in Texas.

TV footage of an 18-year-old Dutch psychiatric patient who has been tethered to a wall every day for the last three years prompts debate.

Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo goes on trial in Guatemala City for allegedly embezzling $15m from the country's defence fund.

Lebanese politician Walid Jumblatt indicates he will back Shia militants Hezbollah in efforts to form a new coalition government.

British Airways cabin crew vote for more strike action in their most recent ballot, the Unite union says.

Pope Benedict XVI says public officials must lead by example, in his first apparent comment on Silvio Berlusconi's sex scandal.

A power utility serving Pakistan's biggest city says the government "instigated" mob attacks on its offices on Thursday.

Prize-winning novelists Orhan Pamuk and Kiran Desai pull out of the Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka, with organisers blaming Indian visa restrictions.

A "very senior" MI5 officer is to appear anonymously at the 7/7 inquests but will be visible to the relatives of those who died in the suicide bombings.

Did Obama-Hu talks help repair frayed ties?

Andy Murray is expecting "a tough match" in his next game at the Australian Open despite having secured two comfortable wins so far.

The prime minister's communications chief Andy Coulson, who has been under pressure over phone hacking allegations, resigns.