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Colonel Gaddafi causes chaos during one-and-a-half hour address to the UN

Russian President Medvedev puts restrictions on the sale of beer (but not vodka)

Robert Mugabe welcomes an EU delegation to Zimbabwe

Former Canadian Cabinet MInister Brian Tobin explains how the country went about reducing its budget deficit in the 1990s

Click here to listen to the interview, which is part of a wider feature from the BBC's Shaun Ley for today's The World This Weekend on Radio 4.

Channel 4 News gets exclusive footage of the Lockerbie bomber in hospital in Libya

Democratic Party of Japan wins landslide victory

Footage of Vladimir Putin baring his chest again as he rides, swims and fishes during his summer holiday in Siberia

Can we expect Gordon Brown to follow suit?!

A full-scale brawl erupts in the South Korean Parliament as the Opposition objects to the Government's new media bill

Patrizia D'Addario, a prostitute from Bari, claims she was to receive €5,000 for a night of sex with Silvio Berlusconi

Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is jeered when he tells angry London audience that "Zimbabweans must come home"

Obama: I'm "deeply troubled" by violence in Iran

Two-thirds of Iranians re-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad*

* According to official returns.

Anti-Nato protests in Strasbourg turn violent

Nicolas Sarkozy stresses Nato's role as a peacemaker

Angela Merkel on Franco-German relations

President Obama welcomes Albania and Croatia to Nato

Benjamin Netanyahu invited to form Israeli Government

Socialist MEPs heckle and walk out as Czech President Vaclav Klaus criticises EU integration in speech to the European Parliament

Japan's Finance Minister appears drunk at press conference...

...but blames medicine for a cold.

Morgan Tsvangirai sworn in as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe

"Zimbabwe is mine" says Robert Mugabe

Six minute background report:

Michael Ignatieff, new Liberal leader, urges Canada's Conservative government to copy Gordon Brown's stimulus plan

The video below was of Mr Ignatieff's first press conference as Liberal leader:

Stephen Harper and Stephane Dion address Canadians as the latter seeks to lead a coalition to unseat Mr Harper as Prime Minister

Many have commented on the very different quality of the two video presentations.

Austria buries far-right leader, Jorg Haider

A left-wing verdict on Stephen Harper's re-election