Turkey has expelled Israel's ambassador and suspended all military agreements over its refusal to apologise for last year's raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla.

Muammar Gaddafi urged his supporters from hiding to fight on as Libya's new interim rulers met world leaders on Thursday to discuss reshaping a nation torn by 42 years of one-man rule and six months of civil war.

World leaders on Thursday agreed to free up billions more in frozen assets to help Libya's interim rulers restore vital services and start rebuilding after a six-month war that ended a 42-year government.

Iran urged French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday not to make comments based on ‘unrealistic information’, after Paris called for tougher sanctions over Tehran's controversial nuclear programme.

Syrian forces raided houses in Hama on Thursday, residents said, hours after the city's attorney general declared on YouTube he had resigned in protest against the suppression of street demonstrations.

Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda was due to be sworn in on Friday and name a cabinet with which he hopes to drive a fragile post-quake recovery forward and build party unity.

At least 22 people died in clashes between Christian and Muslim youths and security forces in the restive Nigerian city of Jos on Thursday, a local mortuary official said, in the second day of violence there this week.

Former deputy premier Tony Tan was sworn in as Singapore's new president on Thursday, five days after scraping to victory in an election where his slim margin showed falling support for the ruling party.

Protesters disrupted a performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in one of Britain's most venerable concert series and forced the BBC to pull the concert off the air, the broadcaster said Thursday.

At least 102 people are now thought to have been killed by floods in and around the south-western Nigerian city of Ibadan, the Nigerian Red Cross says.