Twitter rumours yesterday of Mikhail Gorbachev's death turned out to be greatly hashtag-erated, and so he joins the list of this year's death hoaxes.

A midday bombing that killed two bodyguards of an archconservative former interior minister and injured at least 39 people in a busy commercial district of Bogota has raised fears that violence not seen in the Colombian capital in years could return.

A bomb targeting a former Colombian interior minister killed at least two people today and injured at least 19 others in the heart of Bogota's commercial district, authorities said.

Andy Murray says that the switch to clay is always his most difficult period of the year, but the 24-year-old Scot is learning fast. Having reached the quarter-finals at last week's Monte Carlo Masters in his first clay-court appearance of the season, Murray is through to the last eight of the Barcelona Open after a 6-1, 6-2 win over Colombia's Santiago Giraldo.

Andy Murray eased into the quarter-finals of the Barcelona Open today with a straight-sets win over unheralded Colombian Santiago Giraldo.

Colombia's national police chief, General Oscar Naranjo, has decided to step down because he is tired and feels it is time for a younger generation to take on the job, President Juan Manuel Santos announced.

The US Secret Service is moving quickly to quell a prostitution scandal, sacking three agents less than a week after the embarrassing incident came to light.

An embarrassing scandal involving prostitutes and US Secret Service agents deepened as 11 agents were placed on leave and the agency designed to protect President Barack Obama was forced to apologise.

A computer "whiz kid" who broke into the website of Britain's biggest abortion provider has been jailed for two years and eight months.

World's most notorious arms dealer sentenced for plot to sell weapons to Colombian terrorists

President welcomes 10 captives, but says Farc rebels must make more concessions

25 suspected members of the Anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in police raids across Europe and South America.

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Queen's Park Rangers

Mark Hughes, entrusted with keeping QPR in the top flight, has thus far failed to spark the Rs into life, having won just two of his six games in charge.

Authorities have determined that a dismembered head and other body parts found in a rugged hillside park near the famed "Hollywood" sign are the remains of a man who lived in an a nearby apartment.