Eight men accused over the bombing of a cafe in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh have all denied involvement in the attack.

South Africa denies China has pressured it to block the Dalai Lama's planned visit for Archbishop Tutu's 80th birthday celebrations.

A 104-year-old biscuit produced at a Reading factory and taken on Sir Ernest Shackleton's expedition is sold at Christie's.

Former Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko denounces her trial over alleged abuse of office as a "political lynching", in a fiery closing statement.

A gunman kills a pregnant woman in a Madrid church and then shoots himself, but medics deliver the victim's baby by caesarean section, police say.

Climate change could cost Canada around 1% of its GDP by 2050 in environmental damage, a government panel finds.

The 2011 Ig Nobel Prizes pay humorous tribute to the science behind procrastination, the sex lives of confused beetles, and a wasabi fire alarm.

Chinese internet stocks dive in New York trading as the US Justice Department considers launching a fraud investigation.