Pearls of Wisdom

The UK's official Iraq war inquiry is to begin its public hearings, with leading civil servants and a former spy chief giving evidence.

China executes two people over a scandal involving tainted milk powder that resulted in six children dying, state media say.

At least four out of five children in orphanages worldwide have a living parent, leading charity Save the Children says.

The trial of two alleged Congolese militia leaders is due to begin at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

An alleged Belgian arms dealer pleads guilty to conspiring to illegally export jet engines and parts from the US to Iran.

A Belgian man who doctors thought was in a coma for 23 years was in fact awake all along, it is revealed.

The US will give a target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions ahead of next month's UN climate summit, officials say.

The Philippine government declares a state of emergency in the south after gunmen killed at least 24 people on Monday.

Hindu devotees have converged on a town in Nepal for a festival considered to be the world's largest animal sacrifice.

English Heritage launch an appeal to trace Charles Darwin's missing Galapagos notebook.