Susana Villaran, the first woman mayor of Peru's capital Lima, narrowly survives a vote to depose her from office, exit polls suggest.

Two inmates make a daring escape from a Canadian prison near Montreal by climbing up a rope into a helicopter, but one is later arrested.

Cyprus' parliament will hold an emergency session on a bailout deal, amid public anger over demands that bank customers pay a one-off levy.

The deepest place in the ocean - the Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean - is teeming with microscopic organisms, scientists find.

President Thein Sein makes the first visit to Australia by a Burmese head of state since 1974, as Australia pledges to increase military co-operation.

Police in India's Madhya Pradesh arrest six people in connection with the gang rape of a Swiss tourist, as cross-party talks on tougher rape laws begin in the capital, Delhi.

A new study claims that EU proposals to reduce CO2 will increase the cost of cars, but save much more on petrol.

India's Supreme Court rules that Italy's ambassador has no legal immunity, in a row over Rome's refusal to return two Italian marines charged with murder.