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.

British border staff have faced threats of arrest by Belgian police for trying to tackle the "Lille loophole" which allows people to enter the UK illegally.

The female head of a gangland prostitution ring in Chongqing in south-west China has been executed, Chinese media say.