World News from the BBC

Students from different political affiliations are staging a huge protest at one of India's top universities over plans to introduce CCTV.

A blind activist jailed after revealing right abuses under China's one-child policy has been freed after a four-year prison term, a rights group says.

Investigators in the Philippines say police may have accidentally shot some of the hostages on a bus hijacked last month.

South Korea's central bank surprises markets by keeping interest rates on hold in the face of "global uncertainties".

A roadside bomb kills nine people and injures at least four in Pakistan's Kurram tribal region on the Afghan border, reports say.

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has defended the controversial referendum on changing the constitution.

Five-time champion Roger Federer produces a stunning display to beat Robin Soderling and reach the semi-finals of the US Open.

A forest fire in the US state of Colorado has destroyed at least 136 homes, officials say.

A mass shooting in a shoe factory in Honduras is blamed on rival street gangs linked to Mexican drug cartels.

The newly appointed head of UN humanitarian relief Lady Valerie Amos has spent her first day in office touring Pakistan.

Mexico has rejected remarks from the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, that drug-related violence in Mexico increasingly has the hallmarks of an insurgency.

The number of shops closing in Britain is slowing but a north-south divide has emerged, a survey by retail analysts the Local Data Company suggests.

A US pastor says he is not "backing down" from plans to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11, despite international condemnation.

Contractors who worked for BP on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon oil rig criticise the company's report into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Scientists begin a study to determine if an everyday vitamin supplement could help prevent a common birth defect.

The plight of Commonwealth Games workers in Delhi

A BP report says "a series of failures" by BP and its contractors were to blame for the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Former newspaper editor and Britain's Got Talent judge Piers will replace US TV presenter Larry King on the US network CNN, it is announced.

David Cameron's father Ian dies in hospital in France shortly after the Prime Minister joined other members of his family at his bedside.

A lion lunged at a trainer as stunned onlookers watched in horror, at Las Vegas's MGM Grand Hotel and Casino.