Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards, has died after battling breast cancer, a family spokesperson says.

Google announces a pilot scheme to test Chrome OS notebooks but says they won't go on sale until 2011.

Britain feared Libya would take harsh action against UK interests if the Lockerbie bomber died in prison, latest Wikileaks cables allege.

Ministers begin talks at the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, amid warnings that time is running out to curb climate change.

Most Americans expect the US housing market to remain depressed for at least another two years, a survey finds.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos urges people to evacuate a hillside neighbourhood where a landslide killed more than 30 people on Sunday.

The husband of a woman murdered on her honeymoon is arrested in the UK at the request of the South African authorities, police say.

Jude Celestin, the candidate for Haiti's governing party, has made it through to a presidential run-off with former first lady Mirlande Manigat, electoral authorities say.