An American woman and a Canadian man who went missing in Afghanistan in 2012 are shown captive on videos released by their families.

Leaders of the G7 group of major industrial nations meet in Brussels, with the crisis in Ukraine set to overshadow their talks.

The home town of Bowe Bergdahl, the US soldier freed from Afghan captivity, cancels its welcome rally amid suspicions he deserted his post.

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling agrees to sell the team for $2bn (£1.2bn) and drop his lawsuit against the league, his lawyer says.

Doctors believe they have found the first evidence that a new deadly virus in the Middle East has been transmitted from a camel to people.

The last of the 29 Navajo Americans who developed a code with their native language to encrypt military messages in World War 2 has died at the age of 93.

A manhunt is under way in the Canadian city of Moncton, New Brunswick, as a gunman kills three police officers and wounds two more.

The pilot of a US military jet ejects before his aircraft crashes into homes in Imperial, southern California.