· Grammy Awards 2012: live blog
Live coverage of this year's Grammy Awards in Los Angeles as stars pay tribute to Whitney Houston after her sudden death in a Beverly Hills hotel room on Saturday.


· Grammy Awards 2012: Foo Fighters win four awards as music industry pays tribute to Whitney Houston
The Grammys got under way on Sunday, with the Recording Academy trying to focus on music's biggest night after of the death of one of music's biggest names - Whitney Houston.


· Osama bin Laden's told his children 'not to follow him down path of jihad'
Osama bin Laden told his children "not to follow him down the road to jihad", as the first photographs emerged of his children being held under house arrest in Islamabad.


· Syria: bodies in the rubbish pit suggest there is little mercy on either side
The discovery of 'executed' bodies in an unmarked grave outside Homs raises questions over the extent of brutality used by both sides in Syria's civil war.


· Arab League backs Syria opposition
Arab nations on Sunday night called for a joint United Nations peacekeeping force to be sent to the country.


· Paris wine makers seek recognition for grape growing renaissance
Wine makers of Paris are fighting to stage a grape growing renaissance in and around the capital.


· Yates of the Yard, seeking peace in Bahrain
One of Britain's best known policemen is reforming the Bahrain police service while the force wages a nightly battle against violent protests in the wake of the Arab Spring.
· Yates of the Yard brings 'kettling' to the Arab Spring as Bahrain prepares for violence
One of Britain's best known policemen is reforming the Bahrain police service while the force wages a nightly battle against violent protests in the wake of the Arab Spring.


· Maldives: islanders suffer the effects of brutal police repression
The Maldives were far from being a peaceful paradise last week, as pro-democracy islanders suffered the effects of brutal police repression.


· Whitney Houston dead: detectives investigate whether singer accidentally drowned in bath
Death of singing legend prompts worldwide outpouring of grief, with tributes paid by the biggest names in the music industry.


· Two US activists deported to New York from Bahrain
Two American activists deported in shackles from Bahrain to New York left a Gulf Air flight in London complaining of mistreatment at the hands of the authorities.


· Peru Shining Path leader Comrade Artemio captured and badly wounded
Peruvian troops have captured the badly wounded leader of a remnant of the once-powerful Shining Path rebel group that lives off the cocaine trade, the defense minister said on Sunday.


· US election 2012: Mitt Romney steadies campaign with Maine win
Mitt Romney steadied his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination over the weekend, winning his fourth state contest and a high-profile straw poll of conservative activists.


· Fire and fury as Greek bail-out protesters clash with police
Greek police fired tear gas at protesters hurling stones and petrol bombs outside parliament in Athens, as lawmakers inside debated deeply unpopular austerity measures to secure a bail-out programme aimed at helping the country avoid bankruptcy.


· Mahmoud Ahmadinejad promises 'very important' nuclear achievement in Iran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has inflamed tensions with Israel and the United States with an ambiguous promise to unveil a "very important" nuclear achievement in the near future.


· Al-Qaeda leader backs Syrian revolt against President Assad
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri urges Syrians not to rely on the West or Arab governments in their uprising to topple President Bashar al-Assad.


· Maldives president rejects calls for compromise as street violence set to escalate
Mohamed Nasheed, the Maldives president ousted in a coup last week, is set to escalate street protests in the capital Male.


· Pakistan PM says to lose job if convicted of contempt
Pakistan's beleaguered prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani has conceded he would automatically lose his job if he is convicted of contempt, as he prepared to face the Supreme Court on Monday.


· Nine dead after avalanche hits Kosovo village
Nine people were killed when an avalanche hit the village of Restelica in southern Kosovo, officials said on Sunday, adding to more than 500 killed in snow and bitter cold across Europe in the past two weeks.


· Teenage Tibetan nun sets herself on fire in China
An 18-year-old Tibetan nun has set herself on fire in western China.


· Statue of Carla Bruni Sarkozy as a worker angers France
A French mayor's plan to erect a statue of President Nicolas Sarkozy's wife.


· Malaysia deports Saudi blogger despite fear of execution
Malaysia deported a Saudi Arabian blogger on Sunday, despite fears voiced by human rights groups that he could face execution in his home country over Twitter comments he made that were deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammad.


· Turkmenistan holds presidential election
Turkmenistan has staged an election designed to hand Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, the incumbent president, another five years in power.


· Mitt Romney: Barak Obama 'the poster child for the arrogance of government'
Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney claims that "history will record the Obama presidency as the last gasp of liberalism's great failure and a turning point for the conservative era to come".


· Whitney Houston: life in pictures
The life and times of Whitney Houston who died yesterday at the age of 48.