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

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

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.

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.

Asian stocks fall, tracking a sell-off in the US, amid worries of a slowdown in the US recovery and slower growth in emerging economies.

The globe is facing a "tidal wave" of cancer, and restrictions on alcohol and sugar need to be considered, say World Health Organization scientists.