A Canadian farmer who was sentenced to life in prison for the 1993 murder of his disabled daughter has been granted full parole, his lawyer says.

The 15-year-old boy who shot himself after taking 23 students and a teacher hostage at his school in Wisconsin dies of his wounds.

An orderly at a retirement home in north-eastern Spain has admitted killing 11 elderly residents, reports say.

General Motors and Chrysler announce plans to each hire 1,000 staff, but Fed chairman Ben Bernanke warns about high US unemployment rate.

The cost of borrowing for the governments of Spain, Italy and Belgium reached a new record compared with Germany.

Investigators seized nearly half a tonne of methamphetamine near Atlanta in one of the biggest such finds in US history, authorities say.

Days of heavy rain bring severe floods and landslides to northern Venezuela, killing at least 20 people.

Some UFO sightings could be explained by ball lightning and other atmospheric phenomena, says an Australian astrophysicist who studied a fireball event over Brisbane.