US Senator Harry Reid is taken to hospital after being involved in a car crash on a highway through Las Vegas, the senator's office confirms.

Panama's National Assembly takes the first step towards repealing a controversial law allowing the sale of land in Colon Free Zone, Latin America's biggest duty-free zone.

Lawyers for former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi are to appeal against his jail sentence for tax fraud, media reports say.

A human rights group releases satellite images showing what appears to be the wholesale destruction of a western Burmese district riven by ethnic unrest.

A Royal Marine and an Army medic who died after being injured in Afghanistan were not killed by British forces, the Ministry of Defence says.

At least 24 people have been killed in flooding and landslides by tropical storm Son-Tinh in the Philippines, officials say.

A woman from New Zealand pleads guilty to giving her three-month-old baby cannabis through her breast milk, in a legal first for the country.

Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan was stopped by the US authorities for questioning on his views on US drone strikes, he says.