Libya's Col Gaddafi was shot dead during a gun battle, the acting prime minister says.

About 60 students and other protesters in Chile occupy the congress building in Santiago to highlight concerns over the education budget.

Michael Jackson was so heavily sedated before his death he could not have injected himself with a fatal sedative, an expert tells the trial of his doctor.

China allows four local governments to sell bonds for the first time in 17 years, in a move to help them pay their debts.

A study by an independent scientific project, set up in the wake of the "Climategate" email affair, concludes the Earth really is warming.

There is no link between mobile phones and brain cancer, suggests further research in Denmark, based on a study of 350,000 people.

A two-year-old girl in southern China, who was run over by two vans in an incident which shocked the country, has died, hospital officials say.

Workers at India's top car maker Maruti Suzuki call off a 14-day strike which had seriously affected production.