US Attorney General Eric Holder confirms four American citizens have been killed in US drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan since 2011.

Hewlett-Packard shares leap in after-hours trading, despite quarterly results showing a seventh consecutive fall in sales.

More than one million Montreal residents must boil drinking and cooking water after a mishap at a water treatment plant, officials warn.

Renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who died in March, is due to be buried in his home town in Anambra state.

Amnesty International accuses governments of using state sovereignty as an "excuse" for failing to intervene in emergencies such as in Syria.

A poll in 25 countries for the BBC World Service suggests Germany is the most favourably viewed country in the world.

A US couple who reject medicine in favour of faith healing are charged with murder in their infant son's death, four years after another son's death.

Guatemala's top court throws out the genocide conviction of ex-leader Efrain Rios, whose trial will now be restarted from the middle of proceedings.