The skull of an indigenous Paraguayan girl kidnapped more a century ago is returned to her community for burial after being handed back by a museum in Berlin.

Greek socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos says his country faces a choice between austerity and "mass poverty" in elections on Sunday.

A UN special rapporteur says he will recommend the US restore tribal lands, including the Black Hills of South Dakota, site of Mount Rushmore.

An overnight curfew is imposed around the defence ministry in the Egyptian capital Cairo, after violent clashes there on Friday.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , the man accused of planning the 9/11 attacks on the United States, is set to be formally charged at Guantanamo Bay.

Nine suspected militants have been killed by a US drone in a volatile tribal region of north-west Pakistan, officials say.

A British tourist who tried to protect a girl being mauled by captive cheetahs tells how the animals then turned on her.

Japan begins the process of shutting down its last nuclear reactor, leaving the country without any nuclear power for the first time since 1970.