A US soldier who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Iraq is arrested as she crosses back into the US after losing her deportation case.

Prosecutors in the case of the Colorado theatre massacre in June drop a request to see a notebook the alleged gunman sent to a psychiatrist.

Russia is expected to restore the practice of changing clocks back in the autumn, reversing a reform brought in by ex-president Dmitry Medvedev.

The number of people who died as a result of an explosion at a gas plant in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas rises to 30.

The editor and publisher of an independent journal in Burma are charged with defamation after publishing a story about alleged corruption.

AU Optronics, one of Taiwan's biggest firms, is fined $500m (£300m) by a US court for fixing prices of liquid crystal display panels.

A Turkish court is set to deliver a verdict in the "Sledgehammer" trial of army officers accused of plotting against the Islamist-rooted government.

The US is lifting a 26-year-old ban on New Zealand naval ships in its ports, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta announces during a landmark visit.