Ex-Taliban captive Sgt Bowe Bergdahl retains his lawyer amid an ongoing Army investigation into his 2009 disappearance from a base in Afghanistan.

A federal judge in California rules the death penalty is "dysfunctional" and violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Russia plans to reopen an electronic listening post in Cuba used by the USSR to spy on the US during the Cold War, Russian security officials say.

Australia's Senate votes to repeal the so-called carbon tax, a levy on the 300 biggest polluters brought in by the Labor Party.

Honduras President Juan Hernandez calls for an anti-drugs plan in Central America as part of a strategy to stop illegal child migration to the US.

Militants take over a building near Kabul international airport and fire rockets toward the heavily guarded compound, Afghan police say.

An actress who posted ricin-laced letters to Barack Obama and the New York mayor is jailed for 18 years, the maximum possible sentence.

"Morning people", who are more alert early in the day, are more likely to cheat and behave unethically in the night hours, researchers claim.