A US soldier convicted of plotting to blow up a restaurant full of troops near Fort Hood, Texas, remains defiant as he is sentenced to life in jail.

Great Britain's Shanaze Reade suffers Olympic disappointment again with a sixth-place finish in the women's BMX final.

A Mexican man says he played dead to survive a mass killing in the northern state of San Luis Potosi in which 14 people were shot to death.

Libya's new interim assembly elects moderate Islamist Mohammed Magarief as its head, after people celebrate the handover of power from the NTC.

Five people go on trial in central China for illegal organ trading and intentional injury, after a student sold his kidney to buy an iPad and iPhone.

Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi is expected to be named the new UN envoy for Syria, diplomats say, a week after the resignation of Kofi Annan.

Four Chinese policeman are to go on trial accused of covering up the murder of Briton Neil Heywood, a day after the wife of a politician was tried for the killing.

Ghana holds the funeral of President John Atta Mills, who died in July, with African heads of state and Hillary Clinton among the mourners.