The World This Week...

A row continued over the Scottish justice secretary's release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, on compassionate grounds.

Edward Kennedy, probably America's best known senator, died at the age of 77 after a year long battle with brain cancer.

Barack Obama nominated Ben Bernanke for a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve.