Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrives at New York's JFK airport where he is expected to board a plane to France, after the case against him collapsed.

Cuba's defence minister, Julio Casas Regueiro, a veteran of the Cuban revolution, has died of a heart attack, the country's ruling Politbureau says.

An emperor penguin known as Happy Feet is released into the ocean south of New Zealand after being found washed up on a beach in June.

Tropical storm warnings are in effect from Texas to Mississippi as a weather system threatens flash floods across a swathe of the US coast.

Forces loyal to Libya's interim government close in on one of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi's few remaining strongholds - the desert town of Bani Walid.

Fighting in two Sudanese states has forced thousands from their homes along the border with South Sudan

Legal advisers to Australia's government warn its plans for the off-shore processing of asylum-seekers may be illegal.

Iran's first nuclear power station at Bushehr has begun supplying energy to the country's national grid, state news reports.