A former US biologist pleads guilty to murdering three colleagues and wounding three others in a 2010 shooting rampage at a faculty meeting.

Two men are found trying to board a flight in India with a rare primate species hidden in their underwear.

Militias storm the US consulate in Benghazi over a US film allegedly insulting Prophet Muhammad, in an apparent repeat of an earlier incident in Cairo.

The boss of Facebook speaks for the first time of the drop in the social network's market value, calling the halving of its share price "disappointing".

The White House denies President Barack Obama refused to meet Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in New York this month, amid tensions over Iran.

A close race is expected as voters in the Netherlands go to the polls after a campaign dominated by concerns about the eurozone crisis.

The US urges "cooler heads to prevail" as tension intensifies between China and Japan in a row over disputed islands in the East China Sea.

Hundreds of miners in Bolivia are blocking key access roads to the country's main city, La Paz, to press the government to allow them to work a lucrative mine.