A former Serbian police officer is jailed for 27 years for his role in the 1999 murder of more than 700 ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hits a house in the Israeli city of Beersheba, the first such attack since Israel's 2009 offensive in Gaza.

Europe's sophisticated space freighter, Johannes Kepler, is set to dock with the International Space Station (ISS).

A Brazilian woman finds an alligator hiding behind her couch, washed into her house during flooding caused by heavy rain in the central city of Parauapebas.

On the anniversary of a Cuban dissident's death, US President Barack Obama urges the Cuban government to release all remaining jailed dissidents.

Two US sisters whose sentences were dropped on the condition one donated a kidney to the other must lose weight before the transplant, doctors say.

The authorities in Shanghai, China, announce they will introduce a one-dog policy to bring the canine population under control.

Deutsche Bank gets trading ban after employees manipulated South Korea's stock market, financial regulators say.