The people of Yugoslavia may have got on with their daily lives on the day the Wall fell, but their country was on the brink of falling apart, and it was soon plunged into several bloody civil wars.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has sent out a warning to Afghan President Hamid Karzai that he risks losing western support if his second term in office fails to live up to expectations. His comments came after the Taliban accused the United Nations of “horrendous crimes” in the country.

South Africa's athletics head Leonard Chuene along with his board has been suspended for his role in the handling of 800-metre champion Caster Semenya's gender scandal.

Israel has rejected a United Nations resolution calling on it and the Palestinians to investigate possible war crimes committed during the Gaza war which ran for 22 days from late December 2008.

A US Army major killed 13 fellow soldiers and wounded 30 others in a shooting spree at the Fort Hood Army post on Thursday. The suspect was shot several times but survived.

Hopes of a power-sharing deal in Honduras faded after interim leader Roberto Micheletti announced a new government without the participation of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

At the one hundred and twenty year old puppet theatre in Paris’ Champ de Mars park, French children pack the house to scream and shout for their hero, Guignol, under the able hand of puppeteer Luigi Terrilli.

When you think of the Louvre museum in Paris, you may think immediately of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. You may think of room after room, brimming full of sculptures, or their walls adorned with a large part of the history of painting or IM Pei's glass pyramid. But the Louvre museum and former palace, has a growing number of strings to its bow.