A Danish cartoonist who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad tells a court a man who broke into his home meant to kill him.

The World Meteorological Organization ranks 2010 as the warmest year since 1850, albeit in a statistical tie with 1998 and 2005 - the WMO says it "confirms" global warming.

A gas company employee dies as a giant fireball rips through a residential neighbourhood in the US city of Philadelphia.

A Philadelphia doctor performed thousands of illegal late-term abortions and murdered infants after inducing labour, prosecutors charge.

Brazil's central bank raises its key interest rate to 11.25% in a bid to cool inflation in one of the world's fastest growing economies.

A US Air Force sergeant is sentenced to eight years in prison for exposing sex partners to HIV at swinger parties, defying orders to wear a condom.

Fraudsters are targeting climate scientists with online invitations to book accommodation at fake conferences, often supposedly to be held in London.

India's Supreme Court says the practice of illegal funnelling wealth overseas by Indians is a "pure and simple theft of national money".