At least three people are killed and 200 injured in a train collision in West Bengal, the third serious rail crash in India this month.

A cheap and portable blood test could provide a breakthrough for diagnosing infections in remote areas, a study in the journal Nature Medicine says.

The new minister for prisons in Venezuela says she is planning to conditionally free 40% of the country's inmates to ease overcrowding in Venezuela's jails.

The top US military officer says that, despite Osama Bin Laden's death, the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan is still the epicentre of terrorism.

A world record attempt to link thousands of bras is called off when the underwear became too tangled.

President Obama says Republican and Democratic leaders have agreed a deal to raise the US debt limit, which will now be voted on in Congress.

The pilots of an Air France plane that plunged into the Atlantic in 2009 lacked adequate training to deal with high-altitude stalling, a report finds.

Iran and India resolve the payment dispute that threatened the Islamic state's crude exports to India.