About 140 miners barricade themselves inside a coal mine in northern Bosnia-Hercegovina in a dispute over pay and managerial recruitment.

One of the most famous statues in the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, is removed from view for a year of restoration.

A power cut leaves almost half of Venezuela without electricity, including parts of the capital Caracas.

US senators agree on a draft resolution that would allow limited force to be used in response to alleged gas attacks in Syria last month.

Chinese police say a six-year-old boy whose eyes were gouged out may have been attacked by his late aunt, state media report.

Australia reports better-then-forecast growth numbers for the April to June quarter, boosted by gains in consumer spending.

The Ohio man who kidnapped three women and held them captive in his home for three decades dies after being found hanging in his prison cell.

Japanese camera and medical equipment maker Olympus and its UK subsidiary Gyrus Group will be prosecuted by UK's Serious Fraud Office.