Apple ditches its use of Google Maps in its latest mobile operating system, instead opting for its own mapping software.

The US warns that Syria "may be organising another massacre" in the town of Haffa, where civilians are believed to be trapped.

The US exempts seven countries, including India and South Korea, from economic sanctions in return for cutting their imports of Iranian oil.

Reports of an explosion on a yacht off the New Jersey coast injuring at least seven people could be a hoax, the US Coast Guard says.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez registers to run for a third term in October and leads his biggest rally since he was diagnosed with cancer a year ago.

Leaders of the largest group of US nuns are due to meet Vatican officials in a bid to defuse an escalating row over "radical feminist themes".

More than 30 years after baby Azaria Chamberlain disappeared from an Australian campsite, a coroner gives the final ruling that she was taken by a dingo.

Police in the Bahamas say a boat carrying Haitian immigrants apparently trying to reach the United States has sunk killing at least 11 people.