Latest: Ryanair is calling on UK airports to enforce a two-drink limit after it was revealed the number of passengers arrested for drunken behaviour increased by 50% in the last year.

At least 12 people have been killed and 10 others were injured in Egypt’s south-western desert after armed forces mistakenly opened fire on a group of Mexican tourists.

Nepal has agreed to set up a relief fund for Sherpas who are killed or injured in climbing accidents, one of several key concessions to the mountain guides after Mount Everest’s deadliest disaster.

A frost-bitten Dutch climber today gave the first graphic account of the conditions on K-2 that led to one of mountaineering’s worst disasters.

Cubans were today celebrating the removal of yet another petty restriction on their lives in the wake of Fidel Castro giving up the reins of power.