US authorities arrest two men in California for hacking email accounts and stealing nude photos to post on a so-called "revenge porn" website.

Protests in Ukraine have spread beyond the capital, Kiev, as President Viktor Yanukovych held crisis talks with three key opposition leaders.

Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden says that he has "no chance" of a fair trial in the US and has no plans to return there.

Davos 2014: The BBC's Robert Peston talks to US Treasury Secretary, Jack Lew, about China, Iran, and whether the global economic recovery is real or a false dawn.

In the last two years the number of women delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos has has fallen, despite efforts to boost them. Mishal Husain reports.

Ecuadorean airline Tame says flights between Quito and Caracas will remain suspended until the Venezuelan government pays millions it owes for sold tickets.

South Africa's government orders sculptors to remove a bronze rabbit they hid in the ear of the statue of Nelson Mandela unveiled after his death, a spokesman tells the BBC.

North Korea sends a letter to Seoul urging reconciliation, a move likely to be greeted with extreme caution ahead of joint South Korea-US military drills.