A US biologist faces life in jail without parole for killing three colleagues and wounding three others in a 2010 shooting in Huntsville, Alabama.

Campaigners call for a UK criminal investigation to be brought against Trafigura for the dumping of toxic waste in Ivory Coast in 2006.

Dozens of Taiwanese boats are reported to have sailed to the disputed East China Sea islands at the heart of a row between Japan and China.

A new Save the Children report finds numerous cases of horrific abuse against Syrian children and urges the UN to do more to document them.

The leaders of Sudan and South Sudan resume talks in Ethiopia aimed at resolving long-running disputes over sharing oil wealth and their common border.

Rescuers are being killed and civilians "terrorised" by CIA drone attacks targeting militants in north-western Pakistan, a US report says.

The former chairman of Olympus, Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, pleads guilty to charges of covering up losses of $1.7bn, in a trial that started today.

Preparations are under way to extradite radical preacher Abu Hamza to the US, after the European Court of Human Rights rejects his final bid for an appeal.