Artificial blood vessels made on a 3D printer may soon be used for organ transplants of lab-created organs.

The fossilised remains of a 20ft-long extinct species of crocodile are discovered in a mine in Colombia.

Prosecutors in Italy charge eight people in the southern town of Bari with supplying prostitutes for PM Silvio Berlusconi and his associates.

The six contenders for the right to stand for France's opposition Socialists at the 2012 presidential election hold a live TV debate.

Asian stocks climb on optimism Europe's debt crisis will ease after five central banks announce emergency liquidity measures.

Two customers escaped serious injury after an 86-year-old woman accidentally drove her car into a bike shop in Mission Viejo, California.

A programme encouraging women in China to give birth in hospital, rather than at home, has cut newborn deaths by half, says a study in The Lancet.

The leader of India's governing Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, is back at work a week after she returned home from surgery abroad.