World News from the BBC

Eggs and shoes have been thrown by anti-war protestors at former Prime Minister Tony Blair as he arrived at a book signing in Dublin.

The South Korean Foreign Minister, Yu Myung-hwan, offers to resign after it was revealed that his daughter was offered a job in his ministry.

A lawyer for the three Pakistan players at the centre of allegations of corruption says they are keen for a "timely and satisfactory outcome" to the affair.

Scientists from the US space agency Nasa advise the trapped Chilean miners to exercise and regulate their day and night sleep patterns.

Violence in Afghanistan will get worse before it gets better, the UK's most senior military commander in the country tells the BBC.

BP replaces the blowout preventer that failed to stem the leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well and says it has paid $8bn (£5.2bn) in damage costs.

Mexico has broken its own record for making the longest taco ever prepared in the country.

Israeli and Palestinian talks as seen from the inside

Powerful earthquake damages New Zealand city of Christchurch

Talks to form a coalition government in the Netherlands collapse as the leader of the far-right Freedom Party Geert Wilders walks out.

Downing Street's head of communications, Andy Coulson, is safe in his job despite phone hacking claims surrounding the News of the World newspaper, says a senior government source.

A weakened Hurricane Earl is downgraded to a tropical storm as it continues up the US east coast towards Canada.

A weakened Hurricane Earl has passed North Carolina and is continuing up the east coast of the US.

Fidel Castro warned of nuclear war arising from the dispute that has pitted the United States and Israel against Iran.

Questions over halal meat as market booms in France

A new drill has arrived at the Chilean mine site for an alternative rescue plan, in which a team will drill a separate shaft from a different part of the mountainside.

China gives EU lesson in rural poverty

Some 77% of Britons think taxpayers should not help pay for Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Scotland and England, a survey suggests.

A fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a Tennessee Islamic centre was arson, investigators say.

Reading Arabic 'hard for brain'