The president of a US university says he is "disturbed" that a demonstration of a motorised sex toy was allowed in a classroom.

Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who disappeared in Iran four years ago, is alive, according to the US State Department.

A controversial project to build a huge dam in Brazil's Amazon rainforest is approved by a court, overturning an earlier ruling.

Rebels in eastern Libya have said they will not engage in negotiations unless Col Muammar Gaddafi quits and goes into exile.

A US Naval admiral recommends the Navy censure the top officers of the USS Enterprise over a series of lewd videos produced on the ship.

A New York man is convicted of murdering an indebted motivational speaker who prosecutors said paid his attacker to stab him to death.

President Morales says the arrest of his former drug czar will not force him to invite US anti-drugs agents, whom he expelled in 2008, back to Bolivia.

Japanese carmaker Mazda announces a recall of 65,000 Mazda6 cars in North and Central America because of concerns over a fire risk from spiders.