More than 100 angry passengers refuse to leave their plane for several hours in protest at their flight being diverted to Belgium.

A prominent Hollywood publicist is found shot dead behind the wheel of her crashed Mercedes on a Beverly Hills street.

One of the world's rarest diamonds sells for the record price of $46 million (£29m) after going under the hammer in Switzerland.

The Dominican Republic detects its first case of cholera following the outbreak of the disease in neighbouring Haiti, where more than 1,000 people have died.

Great whites arrived in the Mediterranean all the way from Australia after a "wrong turn", a study of their DNA suggests.

Fourteen Cambodians die when their tractor takes a shortcut through a field and hits an anti-tank mine leftover from the 1980s civil war.

Israeli plans to withdraw troops from the northern half of a village, deemed by the UN to be inside Lebanon, create a dilemma for residents.

Paul and Rachel Chandler have landed at Heathrow after being held hostage by Somali pirates for more than a year.