The testimony of former President Richard Nixon for the Watergate grand jury has been made public after it was kept secret for 36 years.

Mexico captures an alleged senior leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, Ovidio Limon Sanchez, who is wanted in the US.

A US military court convicts Sgt Calvin Gibbs, an American soldier, on three counts of premeditated murder for the deaths of unarmed Afghan civilians.

New Greek PM Lucas Papademos says the priority of his incoming coalition cabinet is to keep Greece in the eurozone by approving an EU bailout.

Federal prosecutors in New York charge a Moroccan man with conspiring to provide weapons and other help to al-Qaeda.

US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urges Asia-Pacific countries to increase efforts to restore growth to the global economy.

Standard & Poor's accidentally releases a message to some of its subscribers saying that it had downgraded French debt from its top AAA rating.

A mine where 21 Chinese workers were killed and 22 more remain trapped was being operated illegally, state media say.