Oracle Software agrees to pay $2m to settle federal civil charges of failing to prevent secret payments in its Indian sales operation.

Police investigate the discovery of a decapitated female head in a river near Toronto, Canada, the day after a severed foot was found nearby.

US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he never paid less than 13% in taxes over the past 10 years, seeking to close the controversial issue.

Norway's head of police, Oeystein Maeland, resigns after an inquiry found that mass killer Anders Behring Breivik could have been stopped.

Peruvian officials say Shining Path rebels have killed five soldiers in a jungle area where they now operate in association with drug traffickers.

Japan is expected to deport a group of activists who sailed to disputed islands amid a diplomatic row, Japanese media reports say.

A fire at a nightclub in the popular Thai tourist destination of Phuket has killed four people and injured about a dozen others, police say.

A court is due to deliver its verdict in the trial of three members of the band Pussy Riot, who performed a protest song in Moscow's cathedral.