Wisconsin Democrats successfully defend two state senate seats in recall elections, ending a political saga that roiled the Midwestern US state.

A house on the market in Sweden comes with a former resident who never moved out - with a medieval skeleton in its cellar.

Hackers launch another attack on a US transport agency that cut off mobile phone services at stations in San Francisco last week to prevent protests.

Mosquitoes can rapidly develop resistance to bed nets treated with insecticide, a new study from Senegal suggests.

Peru says it is halting the eradication of coca plants while it re-assesses its tactics in the fight against the illicit crop, less than a month since President Humala took office.

Japan's trade surplus widens by more than expected in July, boosting optimism that the country's economy is recovering.

Thousands of people protest in the Spanish capital, Madrid, against the cost to taxpayers of a visit by Pope Benedict XVI, hours before his arrival.

Indian anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare, whose detention sparked massive protests, has agreed with police to leave jail and undertake a 15-day hunger strike in Delhi.