Hewlett-Packard's contentious purchase of UK software firm Autonomy is being investigated by the US Department of Justice.

The sister and widow of two Colombian drug barons from the Norte del Valle cartel is shot dead in the northeast of the country.

Japan reports weak economic data, underlining the challenges the new government faces in reviving growth in the world's third-largest economy.

Retired US General Norman Schwarzkopf, who led troops in the 1991 Gulf War, has died aged 78 in Tampa, Florida, US media report.

The US says it has evacuated its embassy in the Central African Republic as rebels threaten to advance towards the capital, Bangui.

A New York woman allegedly cheated donors who gave money after the mass shooting in Newtown by posing as the aunt of a child who died.

A fossils dealer admits smuggling dinosaur bones into the US, including the skeleton of a 70 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar from Mongolia.

Tokyo Electric Power Company, owner of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, is sued by eight US sailors over radiation exposure.