African nations have agreed that sitting heads of state should not be put on trial by the International Criminal Court.
Australian Mark Webber has led a Red Bull front row sweep and denied team mate Sebastian Vettel a fifth successive Japanese Grand Prix pole position.
The OPCW, a chemical weapons watchdog supervising the destruction of Syria’s arsenal, has won the Nobel Peace prize.
Canadian Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her contribution towards the short story genre.
Three US scientists have won the Nobel prize for chemistry for work on computer programs which simulate complex chemical processes.
Britain’s Peter Higgs and Francois Englert of Belgium have won the Nobel Prize for physics for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle.
Italy’s soccer authorities have ordered AC Milan to play its next game behind closed doors and fined the club €50 000 following abusive chants.
Hobbit feet and Frodo’s sword are among the "Lord of the Rings" items that will go on auction in Beverly Hills.
A suicide bomber killed 15 people at a school in Iraq on Sunday, while at least 60 were killed on Saturday in two suicide bombings.
Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel completed a hat-trick of Korean Grand Prix victories on Sunday.