The Bolshoi ballet's artistic director Sergei Filin returns to the company's Moscow theatre after eight months of treatment following an acid attack.

Austrian police find a body they believe is a man suspected of shooting dead three policemen and a paramedic, after storming his home.

At least 16 inmates are killed at a jail in western Venezuela, in the latest violence affecting the country's overcrowded prisons.

Tony Abbott is sworn in as Australia's prime minister, promising a day of action as his government begins work.

Emergency teams are still searching for hundreds of people missing after Colorado's deadly floods, with many believed stranded in deluged areas.

US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is expected to announce an end to the central bank's extraordinary stimulus efforts on Wednesday.

Greece's main public-sector union starts a two-day strike over job cuts agreed in exchange for international bailout loans.

The number of Americans in poverty rose slightly last year to 46.5 million, according to US Census data, despite a stock market recovery.