AP - A dozen centuries-old shipwrecks — some of them unusually well-preserved — have been found in the Baltic Sea by a gas company building an underwater pipeline between Russia and Germany.

The Maldives will make its territorial waters into a shark sanctuary, a government official said Tuesday.

The UK goods trade deficit with the rest of the world widens unexpectedly in January, with imports rising faster than exports.

AFP - Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar warned Tuesday that Tehran has "great means of deterrence" to face any possible attack over its nuclear programme.

A Dutch investigative journalist breached security checks at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, smuggling a refilled liquor bottle aboard passenger jets.

The UK donates £1m ($1.5m) to South Africa to buy 42m condoms, as the nation builds up to the football World Cup.

Three people who apparently jumped to their deaths from a Glasgow tower block were from Russia, police confirm.

AP - Samsung and Panasonic will start selling 3-D TVs in U.S. stores this week, inaugurating what TV makers hope is the era of 3-D viewing in the living room.

The endangered deep sea animal, sea cucumber, has been seized from a restaurant at a five star hotel in the Indian capital, Delhi, officials say.

AP - A senior Google executive welcomed on Tuesday a U.S. decision to relax restrictions on exporting Internet communications services to Iran, Sudan and Cuba.