Major clothing manufacturers are to meet to discuss compensation for workers injured and killed in industrial accidents in Bangladesh.

Researchers have found the strongest evidence yet that climate change rather than humans was the main factor that drove the woolly mammoth to extinction.

Japan tightens security around disputed islands and restates its ownership, a year after its nationalisation of the islands triggered a bitter row with China.

A huge water source has been discovered in the arid Turkana region of northern Kenya, which could supply the country for 70 years, the government says.

Dozens of people are arrested in the Chilean capital Santiago during protests marking the 40th anniversary of the 1973 military coup.

A Bulgarian man has swum more than 2km (1.25 miles) tied up in a bag in a bid to set a Guinness World record, event organisers say.

Israel is to pay $1.1m to the family of an alleged Mossad spy known as "Prisoner X" who killed himself in prison in 2010.

European researchers begin a three-year project to create an exoskeleton designed to be worn by factory workers.