Iran's President Rouhani tells the UN he is prepared to engage in "time-bound and results-oriented" talks on his country's nuclear programme.

Poachers are blamed after more than 80 elephants are poisoned with industrial cyanide in Zimbabwe's Hwange national park.

Oracle Team USA level yachting's America's Cup at 8-8 against Team New Zealand to take the competition into a final race on Wednesday.

Eight inmates who escaped from a prison van when their guards stopped at a hospital in the US state of Oklahoma have been recaptured, authorities say.

US house prices rose 12.4% over the 12 months to the end of July, the biggest annual rise since February 2006, according to a closely-watched measure.

US President Barack Obama and his predecessor Bill Clinton take the stage in New York to promote the president's "Obamacare" healthcare initiative.

Nokia's chairman, Risto Siilasmaa, admits that he accidently gave misleading information about former chief executive Stephen Elop's pay-off.

Kenya begins three days of national mourning following the end of the four-day siege by Islamist militants on a Nairobi shopping centre that left scores dead.