A joint effort to connect the developing world to the internet is launched by Facebook and a range of other tech companies.

New Zealand's parliament narrowly passes legislation allowing the main intelligence agency to spy on residents and citizens.

A suspected member of a gang of jewel thieves known as the Pink Panthers is arrested in southern France.

A 50-year-old woman is arrested in South Africa for allegedly ordering the killing of her two sons as part of a life insurance scam, police say.

Bo Xilai, the disgraced Chinese politician once tipped for the highest levels of power, is to go on trial in the city of Jinan on Thursday.

A man arrested at a school in the US state of Georgia on Tuesday was carrying 500 rounds of ammunition and an assault-style weapon, police say.

An opposition party youth activist in Ghana will appeal against a court's ruling to sentence him to death by hanging, his lawyer says.

A man who shot and killed himself at actress Olivia Newton-John's Florida home was a contractor working on the property, police say.