A celebration by football fans in the US city of Seattle grew so loud on Monday evening it registered as a minor earthquake, a research group says.

The US House of Representatives approves a 10-year extension of a ban on all-plastic guns, amid the spread of at-home 3D printing.

The US SpaceX rocket company puts a commercial TV satellite in orbit, marking its ambition to take a big slice of the market for launching telecommunications spacecraft.

Figures from industry bodies indicate that bicycles outsold cars in almost every country in the European Union in 2012.

The US military halts its ground cargo shipments from Afghanistan via Pakistan because of the risk to drivers after protests over US drone strikes.

The head of the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah says Saudi Arabia was behind last month's blasts near Iran's embassy in Beirut.

Alan Gross, a US man jailed in Cuba, asks President Obama to intervene personally to help win his release, on the fourth anniversary of his arrest.

Australia is investigating a Chinese national over a suspected espionage case at the country's top scientific body linked with the military.