He who is slient, is strongest.

Much of El Salvador's public transport grinds to a halt after street gangs force a shutdown to protest at anti-gang legislation.

Four prisoners with ties to al-Qaeda have escaped from the US-controlled section of Baghdad's Karkh prison, US officials say.

The global economic recovery is slowing faster than forecast, but a return to recession is unlikely, an economic group says.

Portugal sack coach Carlos Queiroz a week after the 57-year-old is suspended for six months for disrupting an anti-doping test.

Scottish ministers and opposition politicians join forces in a bid to ensure the future of two Royal Navy aircraft carriers.

Americans who use electronic media to engage with art are three times more likely to go to a gallery, theater or concert than those who never go online, a survey suggests.

President Obama calls a pastor's plan to burn the Koran a "recruitment bonanza" for al-Qaeda, while Interpol warns a violent response is likely.

A German banker at the centre of a row over comments he made about Jews and Muslims agrees to leave his post, the Bundesbank says.

The government is planning to reduce the annual welfare bill by a further £4bn, Chancellor George Osborne tells the BBC.

A lorry driver is arrested after two men die when they are hit as they walk along the M6 close to Sandbach in Cheshire.

A group of US soldiers murdered a number of Afghan civilians and took body parts as trophies, documents released by military officials suggest.

Rafael Nadal takes on Fernando Verdasco in the US Open night session, with a semi-final against Mikhail Youzhny up for grabs.

A court says federal funding for US stem cell research can continue until a final legal decision on the matter.

Belgium's court rules that recent raids by police probing alleged child sex abuse by Catholic priests were illegal, throwing the investigation into doubt.

Investigators in the Philippines say police may have accidentally shot some of the hostages who were killed during a Manila bus hijacking last month.

US Marines have boarded and seized a vessel hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia, navy officials say.

A carload of suspected Islamist suicide bombers attack Mogadishu airport, killing soldiers and civilians, officials say.

The chair of the Mercury Prize claims that black British female artists are being ignored by the British public.

Fernando Alonso tries to put the team orders controversy behind Ferrari after the FIA decided against further punishment for the Italian team.

The referendum on independence for Southern Sudan is a "ticking time bomb", US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says, however Sudan rejects her comments.