A top US Republican criticises a Senate bill that could penalise China for alleged currency undervaluation as "pretty dangerous".

China and Russia veto a UN Security Council resolution condemning Syria over its crackdown on anti-government protesters.

A tearful Amanda Knox says she is "overwhelmed" at being back on US soil after her acquittal for the murder of UK student Meredith Kercher.

A 24-hour general strike is due to begin in Greece, affecting schools, transport and hospitals, in protest at the country's tough austerity measures.

Forty million smokers around the world could die from TB by 2050, research suggests.

The body of Venezuela's ex-President Carlos Andres Perez is repatriated from the US, after the settling of a family feud over his final resting place.

India's Central Bureau of Investigation is criticised for wrongly claiming it put on trial a woman suicide bomber who killed former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

More than two hundred people have died in monsoon flooding in Thailand since mid-July, officials say, as more heavy rain is forecast.