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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in the Indian capital, where she is scheduled to meet the country's highest officials. Clinton is pressing energy-starved India to continue weaning itself off oil imports from Iran.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Sacked Chinese politician Bo Xilai reportedly plotted three ways to kill Chengdu police chief Wang Lijun to hide the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood by his wife Gu Kailai.

Armenian voters look for their names on publicly displayed voter lists, at a precinct in Ararat on election day, 6 May 2012.

A voter collects his ballot papers at a polling station in Staro Sajmište, Belgrade, during the parliamentary elections and early presidential elections in Serbia, 6 May 2012.

Nearly 11,000 firearms surrendered by their owners were destroyed by the government as part of a programme to reduce the number of weapons in Argentina, officials said.

Francois Hollande has been elected France's first Socialist president in nearly two decades, beating incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in a vote marked by anger over austerity measures, high unemployment and the country's lagging economy.

Nearly 14 months after a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered the most severe nuclear accident since Chernobyl, Japan is shutting down the last of its nuclear reactors.