Seventy-two people alleged to have been part of an online child pornography network, with hundreds of members worldwide, are charged in the US.

Italy is likely to default on its debts but Spain may just avoid it, says the Centre for Economics and Business Research.

The government is urged to give more help to families of traumatised soldiers by a woman who was attacked by her husband after he returned from Iraq.

The Japanese government intervenes in the currency market to weaken the yen and protect economic growth.

Campaigners and lawyers say they will not take part in an inquiry into the alleged torture and mistreatment of British terror suspects.

Marvel Comics unveils a new Spider-Man - a half-black, half-Latino teenager from Brooklyn - who replaces the recently killed-off Peter Parker.

A video is released allegedly showing a British man and his Italian colleague kidnapped in May in the northern-western Nigerian state of Kebbi.

Some of the top-performing NHS trusts in England are predicting they will struggle to hit waiting time targets, official documents show.