Invisible Children's co-founder Jason Russell is to remain in hospital for weeks after California police found him semi-naked and "acting bizarrely".

Three explosions are heard at a flat in Toulouse where a gunman suspected of seven killings has been holed up since Wednesday morning.

The Justice Ministry in China says lawyers are now required to swear allegiance to the ruling Communist Party, a move critics see as "inappropriate".

Japan posted a surprise trade surplus for February, after a record high deficit the previous month, as external demand picks up.

A massive fire sweeps through one of the oldest markets in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta, destroying the majority of the shops.

Malcolm Naden, a fugitive who evaded a seven-year manhunt in Australia, is finally in police custody and has been charged with murder.

A Nasa spacecraft has found further tantalising evidence for the existence of water ice at Mercury's poles.

A woman kidnapped from a remote beach resort in Kenya and held hostage in Somalia for more than six months is preparing to return home to Britain.