A 10th person dies from injuries sustained in Friday's air race tragedy in the US state of Nevada, as investigators finish gathering evidence from the scene.

A 17-year sentence imposed on convicted terrorism plotter Jose Padilla was too lenient, a US appeal court rules.

Romania impounds more than a dozen truckloads of tulips from the Netherlands, prompting an angry reaction from Dutch politicians.

Italy's sovereign debt rating is cut by Standard & Poor's, the latest move in a deepening and continuing European debt crisis.

US death row inmate Troy Davis - whose case has won the support of the Pope and former President Jimmy Carter - makes an 11th-hour appeal for clemency.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu offers peace talks with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to prevent his bid for Palestinian statehood at the UN.

Six Italian scientists and a former government official are due to go on trial for manslaughter over the 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila.

A policy known as "don't ask, don't tell" banning open homosexuality in the US Armed Forces is repealed, nearly two decades after it was introduced.