A hacker group says it has attacked the Sony network and stolen more than one million passwords, email addresses and other information.

Daily discount website Groupon is seeking to raise up to $750m (£460m) in an initial public offering.

South Africa mourns one of the leading lights of the anti-apartheid movement, Albertina Sisulu, who has died aged 92.

A Chilean judge says claims Nobel prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda was poisoned after the 1973 military coup must be investigated

Libyan woman Eman al-Obeidi, who said she was raped by Col Gaddafi's supporters, is deported from Qatar to eastern Libya, UN officials say.

Uganda's President Museveni calls for Somalia's transitional government to be given more time to consolidate gains against Islamist militants.

Moody's warns it may downgrade the US debt rating if Congress fails to increase the debt limit in the coming weeks and risks default.

A new report has identified areas where food supplies could be hardest hit by the effects of climate change.