The most senior UN official for refugees is to visit the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa to where thousands of people have fled unrest in north Africa.

Clarence Clemons - the saxophonist in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band - dies aged 69 in a Florida hospital a week after suffering a stroke.

Sri Lanka's president receives a US court summons over cases filed by relatives of Tamil victims of alleged extra-judicial killings during the civil war.

Amy Winehouse is booed by crowds in Serbia's capital Belgrade after appearing to be too drunk to perform.

Rory McIlroy is closing in on a maiden major title with an eight-shot lead over YE Yang going into the final round of the US Open.

The Russian human rights activist Yelena Bonner - wife of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Andrei Sakharov - dies at the age of 88 after a long illness.

German proposals on the Greek debt crisis put eurozone countries at risk, warns Luxembourg PM Jean-Claude Juncker.

Nato is investigating Libyan government claims that it bombed a residential area of the capital, Tripoli, killing several civilians.