Italian judges put under house arrest the captain of a cruise ship that ran aground on rocks on Friday, killing at least 11 people.

Jerry Yang, co-founder and former chief executive of Yahoo!, resigns from the company's board.

A Turkish court has sentences a man to life in prison for instigating the 2007 killing of prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

Facing renewed pressure to release his tax returns, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney estimates he "probably" pays a rate of about 15%.

An Iraq war veteran is charged with stabbing four homeless people to death in southern California - and police say he had planned more attacks.

The Mexican security forces find 12 shipping containers full of a chemical used to make the synthetic drug methamphetamine in a port on the Pacific.

Constrictor snakes are able to sense the heartbeats of their victims and release them only when the heart stops, scientists say.

Thousands of needless deaths occurred from famine in East Africa last year because early warnings were ignored, say two of Britain's leading aid agencies.