The US state of Alabama exonerates the last three of the Scottsboro Boys, black teenagers wrongly accused of raping two white girls in 1931.

An extremely rare Leica camera with an estimated value of at least $1.2m (£718,000) will be auctioned in Hong Kong later on Thursday.

Several thousand off-duty Portuguese police officers demonstrate outside parliament against cuts they say are putting national security at risk.

US officials urge North Korea to "let our citizens go free", as reports emerge an 85-year-old US veteran has been detained in the country.

A criminal investigation is launched into the collapse of a supermarket roof in the Latvian capital Riga, as the death toll climbs to 12.

Les Miserables and Wolverine actor Hugh Jackman says he has been treated for basal cell carcinoma, a skin cancer on his nose.

The US marks 50 years since President John F Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet in Dallas.

Scientists have practically obliterated the ultimate symbol of maleness in DNA, the Y chromosome, and believe they may be able to do away with it completely.