A doo-wop band whose image is believed to have been the first photo uploaded to the world wide web plays its final gig.

Officials are still struggling to identify a suicide bomber, 48 hours after he killed five Israelis and a local bus driver in Bulgaria.

A US supporter of al-Qaeda admits trying to blow up the Pentagon and Capitol building with explosives-laden remote-controlled model planes.

A newly-published edition of a Chinese dictionary is criticised by rights campaigners for excluding a word that means "gay".

At least 10 people are killed, mostly military cadets flying home from training, as a helicopter crashes in Brunei, officials say.

Prosecutors in Chile investigate about 60 schools over allegations of child sexual abuse, after an increase of complaints this year.

A suicide attacker detonates a device at the entrance to an anti-Taliban commander's compound, killing at least nine people, officials say.

Japan's health ministry is to investigate a report that workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant were urged to disguise their exposure to radiation.