Canadians feel so strongly about defending their country's claims to the Arctic that they support increasing troops numbers there, a major poll suggests.

The authorities in US state of Arizona say they have broken up a gun-running network that was smuggling weapons to Mexican drugs gangs.

A UN envoy proposes the setting up of courts to try pirates in the Somali enclaves of Somaliland and Puntland, and in the Tanzanian town of Arusha.

Barack Obama is to say the challenges facing the US are a "Sputnik moment" in a State of the Union speech referring to the 1950s Soviet satellite launch that sparked a wave of US innovation.

Leaked documents on the Mid-East peace process suggest Britain's intelligence service has been closely involved with attempts to weaken Hamas.

German film producer Bernd Eichinger, who worked on films including Downfall, The Neverending Story and The Name of the Rose, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 61.

New measuring methods try to halt the shrinking kilogram

Police in Cairo fire tear gas and water cannon to break up rare anti-government protests which have left three people dead.