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

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.

The bodies of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, his son and defence minister were buried in a secret location in the desert at dawn, officials say.