Ten people are sentenced in Argentina for kidnapping and sexually exploiting Marita Veron, who has been missing since 2002.

Indonesians head to the polls to elect national and regional lawmakers, in a move that sets the stage for presidential elections in July.

Renowned Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 87, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, leaves hospital in Mexico after treatment.

The EU, Russia, the US and Ukraine will hold talks next week to discuss the situation in Ukraine, the first such meeting since the crisis began.

Spanish MPs reject a request by the Catalan authorities to hold a referendum on independence by an overwhelming majority.

The UK cannot challenge the EU's basic principles if it wants to stay a member, says the man who may be the next head of the European Commission.

A New York man is freed from prison after serving 25 years for a murder he did not commit, as part of larger review of questionable convictions.

South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is due back in court after the judge adjourned his murder trial when he broke down in tears during testimony.