World News from the BBC.
The international regulatory body which oversees web addresses on the Internet has agreed to look again at creating a domain
solely
devoted to
pornography. The body, known as ICANN, has previously rejected the idea three times. More than 110,000 buyers have already registered an interest in having names on a pornography domain, which will be known by the suffix .xxx.
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that European countries are not legally
obliged to
allow gay or lesbian couples to marry. The court said that individual countries were best placed to decide on the issue. Here is our Europe correspondent Jonny Dymond.
Two Austrian men brought this case to the European Court of Human Rights, a body whose
jurisdiction
stretches across the 47 countries that make up the council of Europe. At least seven of those countries now allow same-sex marriage. Austria does not, although it has arrangements that provide for legally-recognized partnerships between those of the same-sex.
The court ruled that whilst there is what it called an emerging European consensus towards the legal recognition of same-sex partnership, no such consensus exists when it comes to marriage.
The alleged Jamaican drugs lord, Christopher "Dudus" Coke, has pleaded not guilty to charges of running a huge drugs ring in the United States from a base in the Caribbean. Mr Coke entered the plea in a court in New York a day after he was extradited from Jamaica. American prosecutors say he conspired to distribute cocaine and marijuana throughout the eastern United States for more than 15 years.