Fizzy-drink giant Coca-Cola is to launch a new advert highlighting its efforts to fight obesity, addressing the issue for the first time on TV.

Thousands of African troops are expected in Mali in "coming days and weeks" to support Malian and French forces, France's UN ambassador says.

US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who has not asked a question in court since 2006, breaks his silence by uttering four words.

Unknown gunmen kill the mayor of Jutiapa in Guatemala as President Otto Perez Molina hails "a historic decline in violence".

US banking regulators order JP Morgan Chase to implement stricter risk controls, after it lost billions in bets made by a trader known as the London Whale.

The human tendency to share and be fair has ancient evolutionary routes, according to a study of chimpanzees.

At least 19 people are killed and another 103 wounded after a train carrying army recruits derailed near Egypt's capital Cairo, officials say.

Police in Islamabad fire warning shots in the air and use tear gas against anti-corruption protesters on a march led by cleric Tahirul Qadri.