French police investigating alleged sexual misconduct by former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn question top Socialist figure Francois Hollande.

Eurozone leaders are set to meet for a summit to try and resolve the Greek debt crisis and stop contagion to other economies.

At least 37 soldiers are arrested in Guinea following the attack on President Alpha Conde's home, officials say.

The US state of Arizona is seeking private donations to build a fence along its border with Mexico, amid concerns the US has failed to secure its southern border.

A US man who shot dead three people on a post-9/11 rampage has been executed in Texas, despite pleas for clemency from a survivor of the shootings.

Maoist rebels in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh blow up a bridge, killing four people and wounding five others, police say.

A 120-million-year-old fossil is the earliest evidence of a pregnant lizard, according to scientists.

Climate change poses a major threat to global security, a senior UN official warns, as the Security Council agrees a statement, despite Russian objections.