Somalia's Islamist al-Shabab militants ban the Red Cross from operating in areas its controls, accusing it of betraying trust and handing out unfit food.

Former US senator John Edwards' daughter flees court during evidence about a furious confrontation between her father and mother over his affair.

The pro-democracy protests of 2011 were let down by states putting self-interest before human rights, Amnesty International says in its annual report.

Osama bin Laden spent his last days trapped inside a cramped compound with two feuding wives, as family members worried the older of the town women would betray the al Qaeda leader to authorities, according to a detailed account compiled by a retired Pakistani army officer. According to Brigadier Shaukat Qadir's report, based on interviews with the wives and other residents of the compound, suspicions erupted between bin Laden's wives when the eldest one, Khairiah Sabar, suddenly turned up in Pakistan. She had lived in Iran after fleeing Afghanistan in 2001.