Google has been ordered to move a huge barge it moored mysteriously off San Francisco Bay, due to improper permits.

A man who acted as UKIP's Commonwealth spokesman has served a seven-year jail sentence over a kidnapping in Pakistan, BBC Newsnight reveals.

The rate at which US women had abortions fell between 2008-11 to the lowest level since abortion was legalised in 1973, a new study suggests.

Ukraine opposition MPs are expected to push for constitutional changes that would reduce the power of the president, as parliament begins a new term.

The average passenger aircraft now carries dozens if not hundreds of electronic gadgets on board - but there are warnings that the lithium batteries found inside them could pose a serious threat to aircraft safety.

An adventurer who has spent a year running across Canada completes his 5,000-mile (8,000m) journey in Vancouver.

A teacher in the US state of California has been arrested on sexual abuse charges after a former student aired allegations in a YouTube video.

At least 10 people are killed after the bus they were travelling overturned in India's western state of Maharashtra, media reports say.