One of the founding members of India's main opposition BJP, LK Advani, says he is resigning from all his posts in a row over party direction.

A Canadian astronaut who captivated the world with his images and videos on social media from the International Space Station (ISS) is retiring.

Venezuela's government says nine Colombian citizens with links to right-wing paramilitary groups were planning to kill President Nicolas Maduro.

President Mohammed Morsi says "all options are open" to deal with any threat to Egypt's water supply posed by an Ethiopian dam on the Blue Nile.

A German court has ruled a bank supervisor was unfairly fired for missing a multi-million-euro error by a clerk who fell asleep during a transaction.

A ex-CIA employee - who has leaked details of US top-secret secret phone and internet surveillance - disappears from his hotel in Hong Kong.

The US Senate is set to take the first votes on immigration reform, beginning a weeks-long fight through the amendment process.

South African ex-President Nelson Mandela spends a fourth day in a Pretoria hospital where is he being treated for a recurrent lung infection.