Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday scraped through a crucial confidence vote in parliament, overcoming one of the most serious crises in his 16-year political career.

The British husband of Anni Dewani plotted her killing on honeymoon in South Africa, a prosecutor told a court hearing in Cape Town on Tuesday, national news agency SAPA reported.

Europe and Africa faced up to global woes with a new summit deal on Tuesday to revive stalled economic ties, as emerging powers such as China scramble for a stake in the resource-rich continent.

North Korea boasted on Tuesday of running “thousands” of nuclear centrifuges, a week after launching a deadly artillery attack on South Korea, as China pressed for six-nation crisis talks.