The owner of the Ohio house from which three women were rescued after about a decade in alleged captivity faces kidnapping and rape charges.

The man tipped to be Pakistan's next prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, says he would end the country's involvement in the US-led war on terror if elected.

Thousands of supporters of Haiti's former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide defy a ban on protests to "protect" him as he answers questions in a murder probe.

An elderly nun and two peace activists are convicted for damage caused while breaking into a US defence site that processes and stores uranium.

The former boss of scandal-hit Enron, Jeffrey Skilling, is set to have up to 10 years taken off his prison sentence.

A fire in a garment factory in the Bangladesh capital kills at least eight people, as the death toll from a collapsed factory complex continues to rise.

A top US official who was in Libya during a deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi has given the first public account of the event.

A Pakistani prisoner attacked by a fellow inmate at a high-security prison in Indian-administered Kashmir dies in hospital, doctors say.