A trainee Catholic nun has appeared in court charged with killing her newborn child at a convent in Washington DC.

Nine Lebanese Shia pilgrims held hostage in Syria since May 2012 have been freed, the Lebanese interior minister says.

Greek police investigate the identity of a young blonde child found living with an unrelated couple on a Roma settlement.

The ex-treasurer of Spain's ruling Popular Party Luis Barcenas tells a court he handed illegal cash to the party's secretary general, a claim she denies.

Two convicted murderers freed from prison thanks to forged paperwork went to a jail to register as felons days after their release, records show.

The Malian authorities say 72 people are now known to have died after a boat capsized a week ago on the River Niger.

The US agrees a deal with Romania to use its air base as a key transit point for American forces leaving Afghanistan, officials have said.

A firefighter responding to July's San Francisco plane crash who ran over and killed a survivor covered in flame-retardant foam will not be charged.