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

Eurozone ministers meeting in Brussels have vowed step up work on support for Ireland "with an accent" on its banks.

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

Twin sisters from Australia are shot in the head at a firing range in Colorado, leaving one dead and the other seriously injured, police say.

US Vice-President Joseph Biden warns that failure to ratify a new nuclear arms control treaty with Russia will "endanger our national security".

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.