A suicide bomber blows up his car near a Lebanese army checkpoint in a southern suburb of the capital Beirut, injuring 12 people.

Sunni rebels in Iraq say they have fully captured the country's largest oil refinery at Baiji, north of Baghdad, after days of heavy fighting.

The Mormon Church has excommunicated a prominent backer of the ordination of women priests for contravening official doctrine, her supporters say.

Authorities rescued 168 children and arrested 281 alleged pimps in cities across the US in a week-long child sex-trafficking sting, the FBI says.

BBC journalists in London will be joined by colleagues from other news organisations for a protest against the jailing of three al-Jazeera staff in Egypt.

A court is to begin hearing evidence in the trial of the captain and 14 crew members of a South Korean ferry that sank in April, killing more than 300 people.

US President Barack Obama urges his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to stop weapons entering Ukraine, after rebels there agree to observe a truce.

Google unveils plans for its own domain name registration service that will allow consumers "to search, find, purchase and transfer" domain names.