The foreign ministers of the US, Norway and Britain urged Sudan and South Sudan to start implementation of all aspects of bilateral agreements "immediately and unconditionally".
Libya's massive liquor poisoning has already killed 68 people, while hundreds of other victims were being treated for kidney failure, blindness or seizures.
A man shot dead two female clerks in the regional government of Umbria in Italy before killing himself on Wednesday, local media reported.
France will start withdrawing troops from Mali as of April, French President Francois Hollande said here Wednesday.
Long targeted during the country's sectarian war, Iraq's best hairdressers and beauticians have held a festival in central Baghdad to show their talents, a symbolic move to break with years of fear.
US President Barack Obama is due to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the White House on February 22, the White House announced on Friday.
Warning of the possibility of a new arms race in the region, analysts said negotiations are the way to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Saturday took the unusual step of publishing details of his earnings and tax returns on the official government website to tackle a corruption scandal.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that Russian orphans should be adopted in their homeland.
German Education Minister Annette Schavan announced her resignation on Saturday after a university stripped her of her doctorate for plagiarism.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is likely to testify before Congress over the deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, late this month.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, recovering in Cuba from a cancer surgery, will not be able to return to Caracas to take office on Thursday.