Oscar Pistorius is cross-examined for a third day at his murder trial, a day after the prosecution tried to portray him as a selfish liar.

A woman has thrown a shoe at former First Lady Hillary Clinton as she was giving a speech in Las Vegas.

A high court in China upholds the four-year jail term given to prominent rights and transparency activist Xu Zhiyong.

Several newspapers in Myanmar print black front pages to protest against recent arrests and jail terms handed out to journalists.

A man injured in Ukraine unrest claims on two different TV channels that he is both for and against Russia.

The UN's refugee agency says the EU must help Italy with a dramatic upsurge in migrants, with as many as 6,000 reaching its shores in the past four days.

Ten people, including five teenage students, are killed in a fiery bus crash in California, authorities say.

The White House refuses to issue a US visa to Iran's pick for UN ambassador, who was involved in the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979.