Italy's prime minister designate Mario Monti says he hopes to form a government that will be in office until 2013 when the next elections are due.

Dozens of people have been killed in clashes in Syria, activists say, as the king of neighbouring Jordan urges President Assad to step down.

The Mexican military finds 140 Central American migrants hidden behind a false wall in a trailer heading north on a Mexican highway.

A UK-based lobby group, Publish What You Fund, calls for greater transparency in how international aid money is spent.

The former boyfriend of Sharon Bialek, the woman who accuses Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of groping her, backs her story.

Former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky admits in a phone interview that he took showers with children, but denies he is a paedophile.

Austrian officials say they have exhumed more than 220 skeletons from a Nazi-era graveyard in a psychiatric hospital in the province of Tyrol.

Australian leader Julia Gillard is urging her governing Labor Party to overturn a ban on selling uranium to India.