British Airways aircraft parked outside Terminal 4 at Heathrow Airport in London. British Airways cabin crew will strike for seven days later this month after failing to reach agreement in a long-running dispute over pay and working conditions, union officials said on Friday.

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera (C), accompanied by his wife Cecilia Morel (L) and Lower House Congresswoman Carolina Fuenzalida leaves the Congress at the end of the inauguration ceremony in Valparaiso. A 7.2-magnitude aftershock and four other tremors rocked disaster-hit Chile Thursday, triggering a tsunami alert just minutes before Pinera was sworn in as the new president.

UN police patrol as people wait in line during the distribution of humanitarian aid in Port-au-Prince. The first kidnappings of aid workers in Haiti jolted the thousands-strong foreign relief operation in the quake-torn nation Thursday, adding to the staggering challenges it faces two months after the country's deadly disaster.

US President Barack Obama spoke at the the Export-Import Bank's Annual Conference in Washington, DC, on Thursday. "Countries with external surpluses need to boost consumption and domestic demand," Obama pointed out.

The world's new richest man, Mexican Carlos Slim, and a fresh crop of billionaires in Asia helped lead a comeback for the wealthiest few on the planet in 2010, Forbes magazine said overnight.

A Romanian man gets vaccinated against swine flu in Bucharest in January 2010. The World Health Organisation has said that swine flu has claimed at least 16,713 lives around the world since it was first uncovered in Mexico and the United States last April.

Carlos Moya of Spain returns a backhand to Tim Smyczek of the United States during the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, California. Moya won 7-6 (9/7), 7-6 (7/5).

Swiss Simon Ammann gestures after he won during the FIS World Cup Ski Jumping competition in Kuopio, on March 9, 2010. LEHTIKUVA / Martti Kainulainen *** FINLAND OUT ***

An injured Pakistani soldier lies inside an ambulance after being evacuated from the scene of a blast in Lahore. Twin suicide attacks seconds apart targeted the Pakistani military on Friday, killing 39 people in the second attack to hit security forces in the country's cultural capital this week.

Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas, seen here in 2009, insists he is ready to play through the pain barrier to help the Gunners end their long wait for silverware.