Nicaraguan presidential candidate Fabio Gadea says election results which give incumbent Daniel Ortega an unassailable lead are fraudulent.

France lays claim to a 17th Century painting currently being displayed by a London gallery at an art fair in Paris.

An asteroid some 400m across is set to pass by the Earth, on a path closer to us than the Moon - though it poses no danger.

A female loggerhead turtle will not reach maturity and start to lay eggs until she is 45 years old, according to scientists.

Police entering a jail in Acapulco in Mexico are stunned to find 19 prostitutes and 100 fighting cocks among the inmates.

Poland's first transsexual member of parliament is to be sworn in on Tuesday, in what has traditionally been a socially conservative country.

As local elections are held across the US, the state of Oregon begins testing voting via iPad in a bid to make voting more accessible for disabled voters.

A controversial tax on polluters passes its final major legal hurdle in Australia as senators back the plan, in a victory for the Labor government.