A former senior policeman is jailed for 22 years after being convicted of trying to smuggle banned substances into Australia.

Modern Family - winner of best comedy at both the 2011 Writers Guild of America and Producers Guild Awards - is a leading contender for next year's honours.

Prosecuting lawyers say they will not press for a death sentence for Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of killing a white police officer in 1981.

Drugs maker AstraZeneca is to cut 1,150 jobs in the US in a bid to further cut its costs.

Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, already facing child abuse charges, is arrested after two more alleged victims accuse him of sexual abuse.

The government of the Maldives temporarily bans the depositing of rubbish from its hotels onto an island used almost entirely as a garbage dump.

A Colombian former paramilitary leader and key witness to a 1997 massacre hands himself in to the authorities five years after demobilising.

Panama's jailed former ruler Manuel Noriega will be extradited from France to his homeland on Sunday, Panama's foreign minister says.