Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says the first phase of his treatment for cancer has ended successfully in Cuba.

Fast food giant McDonald's sees its quarterly profits soar 15% on higher sales across all its global regions.

Republican House Speaker John Boehner exits crunch debt ceiling talks at the White House with President Barack Obama, and each side blames the other.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has picked up tantalising fluctuations which might - or might not - be hints of the sought-after Higgs boson particle.

At least 80 people died when a gunman opened fire at a Norwegian island youth camp, police say, hours after a deadly bomb attack on the capital, Oslo.

Anthony Sowell, a 51-year-old Cleveland sex offender who lived among the rotting remains of 11 women, is convicted of killing all of them.

South Sudan rebel leader Col Gatluak Gai is killed, a week after he agreed to a ceasefire with the newly independent government.

Swimming's governing body is criticised for allowing races at the World Championships in Shanghai, despite water being "too hot and dangerous".