A former CIA Milan station chief asks the Italian president for a pardon after being convicted in absentia of kidnapping an Egyptian Muslim cleric.

China announces new plans to control the use of coal to combat dangerous levels of air pollution in its major cities.

Twitter announces, in a tweet, that its planning its stock market flotation - one of the most anticipated since Facebook's last year.

Mount McKinley, the highest peak in North America, has measured 83ft (25.29m) shorter than previously thought, according to a new survey.

Ray Dolby, the US engineer who founded Dolby Laboratories and pioneered noise reduction in audio recordings, dies in California aged 80.

Some of the striking landscapes of Ecuador's Galapagos islands can now be explored online on Google Street View.

Four men found guilty of raping and murdering a student in the Indian capital Delhi are due to be sentenced.

A stretch of beachside boardwalk in the US state of New Jersey is ravaged by fire, just one year after Superstorm Sandy tore through the area.