The search for a missing Malaysian airliner is due to resume in the southern Indian Ocean, a day after satellite images spotted another 122 objects in the water.

A judge throws out the US state of Oklahoma's execution law, ruling it improperly prevents inmates learning the source of the drugs used to kill them.

Scientists say they have new evidence that autism begins in the womb with changes in the early development of the brain.

Researchers stage stag beetle battles to solve the mystery of how the male beetles bite so hard.

The mayor of the largest city in the US state of North Carolina resigns after being arrested by the FBI on corruption charges.

Two firefighters are killed and 13 injured in the US city of Boston in a wind-whipped blaze that destroyed a three-storey residential building.

Opposition Venezuelan congresswoman Maria Corina Machado returns to Caracas after having her mandate revoked by the National Assembly.

The number of people still missing in Saturday's catastrophic mudslide in the US state of Washington has dropped to 90, authorities say.