Military forces in the Philippines have carried out their first air strikes for three years on Muslim separatist rebels in the south.

Pennsylvania has begun a state takeover of its capital, Harrisburg, several weeks after the city declared bankruptcy under a little-used chapter of bankruptcy law.

Defence lawyers for Conrad Murray, accused in the death of Michael Jackson, begin calling witnesses after four weeks of prosecution testimony.

Formula 1 will stage a Grand Prix in New Jersey from 2013, according to West New York mayor Felix Roque.

Patients in state-run hospitals in Syria are subjected to torture and mistreatment, a report by Amnesty International says, amid continuing unrest.

Romania's former King Michael I is to mark his 90th birthday by addressing parliament in Bucharest for the first time since his abdication in 1947.

About a third of investors voted against the re-election of James and Lachlan Murdoch to the News Corp board, after the UK phone-hacking scandal.

The critically endangered Javan rhino is now extinct in Vietnam after the last surviving animal was killed, according to a report by conservation groups.