World News from the BBC

At least 15 people are killed and more than 60 wounded in a bomb attack in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz, local officials say.

Nineteen years after his brutal beating by four LA police officers, Rodney King is marrying a juror from the case.

French financial police search the headquarters of President Nicolas Sarkozy's party over the inquiry into the L'Oreal party funding scandal, reports say.

A business jet and a passenger plane carrying 232 people came close to a mid-air collision over London in 2009, a report reveals.

China warns Japan that their wider relationship will suffer if Tokyo mishandles a dispute about a Chinese fishing boat seized in disputed waters.

A British journalist held captive by militants in north-west Pakistan since March is released.

A prominent human rights lawyer in Iran, Nasrin Sotoudeh, is detained by the authorities on security charges.

Central bank governors and senior regulators are to impose tighter restrictions on the level of assets banks must hold, the BBC has learnt.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Mexican drug violence is looking increasingly like an insurgency, a comment strongly rejected by Mexico.

The United States has been overtaken by Sweden and Singapore in the World Economic Forum's competitiveness survey.

A judge more than doubles an award made by a jury to Don Johnson over profits owed from a TV show to $51.2m (£33.2m).

Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticises the tactics of his opponents, in a BBC interview ahead of Sunday's constitutional referendum.

The referendum on independence for Southern Sudan is a "ticking time bomb", US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says.

Is Mexico becoming like 1980s drugs-wracked Colombia?

Pictures reveal new side to life in trend-setting Soweto

A former bodyguard for Britney Spears files a sexual harassment lawsuit against the pop star.

Wall Street banking giant Goldman Sachs is fined £17.5m by the UK's financial watchdog.

Rapper Tinie Tempah leads the way in the nominations for this year's Mobo Awards in Liverpool with four nods.

Plus-size models make New York Fashion Week debut

An explosive EastEnders storyline which could see the end of Peggy Mitchell, played by Barbara Windsor, begins on Thursday.