An Afghan man found guilty of running one of the world's largest heroin trafficking rings and funding the Taliban is jailed for life in the US.

Syria is in civil war, warns the UN's head of peacekeeping, as the US accuses Russia of supplying the Syrian government with attack helicopters.

The final round of negotiations leading to next week's Rio+20 summit begins on Wednesday with countries very much at odds on key issues.

Catherine Greig, girlfriend of alleged Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger, is sentenced to eight years in prison for helping him evade capture.

Heavyweight boxing champion Teofilo Stevenson, who won three Olympic gold medals for Cuba and refused offers to fight abroad, is buried in Havana.

US federal prosecutors say they have arrested the brother of a suspected top Mexican drug lord and dismantled a money-laundering operation.

Mike McQueary, a key prosecution witness, tells a US jury that he saw former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky abuse a boy no more than 12 years old.

ICC delegates visit colleagues held in the Libyan town of Zintan, amid accusations they smuggled documents to the late Col Gaddafi's detained son.