The funerals of the two County Down women who were murdered in Turkey take place.

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Turkey murders: funerals underway

Iranian television says the two Americans, Shane M. Bauer and Joshua F. Fattal, who have been detained for more than two years, have been sentenced to eight years in prison.

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Reports Say Iran Has Convicted Hikers of Spying

Egypt says it is withdrawing its ambassador to Israel over the deaths of five of its policemen on the two countries’ border.

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Egypt withdraws envoy in Israel

British Airways and the Unite union reach an agreement which could end the long-running dispute between the two sides.

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BA and union agree to end dispute

More than half of the two million tickets for the London 2012 Paralympics will cost £10 or less, organisers announce.

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Prices for Paralympics revealed

The US says it will not withdraw their CIA chief in Pakistan, whose name was leaked to media last week, amid strained relations between the two countries.

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CIA ‘not to pull Pakistan chief’

The division of authority between the two leaders has seemed to work smoothly and soothe tensions for the past three years, but it has recently shown signs of breaking down.

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Memo From Moscow: Bulldogs Under the Rug? Signs of a Putin-Medvedev Rift

Thai and Cambodian soldiers exchange fire across their disputed border for a ninth consecutive day, despite a truce agreed by the two countries.

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Thai-Cambodia truce broken again

Not long before police say Brittany Norwood stabbed and bludgeoned Jayna Murray to death last month inside the Lululemon Athletica store in downtown Bethesda’s high-end shopping district, the two were the perfect sales team.

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Nothing in Lululemon suspect’s past suggests she could have done what police allege

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Residents barricaded themselves inside their homes Sunday, blanketing windows and pushing furniture against doors as this country on Africa’s western coast tensely awaited the final battle between the two men who claim the presidency.

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Tense residents, barricaded in their homes, await Ivory Coast’s final battle

Filming on the two Hobbit movies, starring Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, finally begins after months of delays.

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Hobbit filming finally under way

After an escalation in violence between opposing protesters this week, President Ali Abdullah Saleh has instructed security forces to protect demonstrators and thwart clashes between the two sides.

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Yemen’s Leader Orders Police to Protect Protesters

A 2-year-old boy and his mother have been found dead inside a Massachusetts trash bin, leaving authorities Monday to track down whomever killed the two and put them there.

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Toddler, mom found dead in trash bin

There is a fear in the West, one rarely echoed in Egypt, that the revolution could mimic Iran’s, when radical Islamists ultimately led a movement that began with a broad base. But the two nations are very different.

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News Analysis: Egypt’s Path After Uprising Does Not Have to Follow Iran’s

Every release of a major new Apple product, be it due to clever company buzz-building, fierce customer loyalty or a combination of the two, tends to prompt a certain level of hysterics.

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iReport: Verizon iPhone underwhelms