A Los Angeles court appoints a cousin of Michael Jackson's children as their temporary guardian after reports of rifts in the family.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is in Britain on the first leg of a week-long foreign tour that includes stops in Israel and Poland.

The US confirms the defection of two more high-level Syrian diplomats, as fighting in the key commercial hub of Aleppo intensifies.

Mexican rescue workers recover the bodies of seven miners from the same family who died in a gas blast at a mine in Coahuila state.

The British Bankers Association was given weekly warnings in 2008 of interbank interest rate distortion, an ex-Libor compiler at Thomson Reuters says.

The Mexican subsidiary of HSBC bank is fined $27.5m for infringing regulations aimed at preventing money-laundering.

Despite having protected status, the biodiversity in a large number of tropical forests is still continuing to decline, a study suggests.

The idea that exercise is more important than diet in the fight against obesity has been contradicted by new research.