An Argentine railway company denies claims that a train driver warned officials of faulty brakes before a crash that killed 51 people.

Five school students are injured by a gunman who opened fire in a cafeteria at Chardon High School in Ohio before being taken into custody, reports say.

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa pardons the owners and a journalist at El Universo newspaper who were given jail terms for libelling him.

The German chancellor got a little more beer than she bargained for when a waiter managed to spill five glasses of beer down her neck at an event organised by party colleagues.

A passenger train has derailed in the Canadian province of Ontario, reportedly killing three people and leaving several others trapped.

The 84th Academy Awards ceremony has kicked off at the Kodak theatre in Los Angeles, hosted for the ninth time by Billy Crystal.

An air strike in al-Shabab-held southern Somalia kills four people, including three foreigners, eyewitnesses tell the BBC.

British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen arrives at the Oscars in character as a middle eastern dictator, holding an urn of ashes, which he spills over TV host Ryan Seacrest.