Richie Havens, the folk singer who opened the legendary 1969 Woodstock rock festival, dies of a heart attack at 72.

Militants in a rebel-held area of northern Syria abduct two bishops travelling from the Turkish border back to the city of Aleppo.

The US transport safety authority delays a proposal to allow some small pocket knives aboard US flights for the first time since the 9/11 attacks.

Brazilian driver Jaime Melo Junior, who won two Le Mans 24-hour endurance races, is arrested after crashing his car during a high-speed chase.

Paraguay's President-elect Horacio Cartes, one of his nation's wealthiest men, says he would "never put personal interests before the country's".

The motive for the Boston Marathon bombing remains unclear, after prosecutors charged the surviving suspect in hospital.

Dozens of Japanese MPs visit a war-linked shrine, as multiple vessels from China and Japan sail in waters near disputed East China Sea Islands.

A car bomb explodes outside the French embassy in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, wounding two guards and causing extensive damage, officials say.