Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg becomes one of the latest billionaires to pledge to give away the majority of his wealth.

Wesley Snipes arrives at a federal prison in Pennsylvania to begin a three-year sentence for tax evasion.

Attempts to repeal a ban on openly gay men and women serving in the US military receive a serious setback on Thursday as a key Senate vote fails.

Romania's former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife are reburied - nearly five months after their bodies were exhumed to confirm their identity.

Mexican police battle drug traffickers, who have been blockading roads into the western city of Morelia with burning vehicles.

Brazilian President Lula da Silva calls the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange an attack on freedom of expression

African-American and Latino adults in the US who use the internet are twice as likely as whites to use the website Twitter, a survey suggests.

Countries at the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, launch a diplomatic assault on Japan in an effort to soften its resistance to the Kyoto Protocol.