The US drummer for the German rock band Scorpions has been sentenced to one month in jail in Dubai for offensive behaviour, local media say.

The Italian judges who reinstated the guilty verdict against Amanda Knox say she delivered the knife blow that killed UK student Meredith Kercher.

A Brazilian fisherman in a remote Amazon region river finds debris from a European satellite launched from a base in neighbouring French Guyana.

Narendra Modi, the man tipped to be India's next prime minister, is set to vote in his home state of Gujarat in the seventh phase of India's poll.

Pakistan's authorities have "almost completely failed" to protect journalists, says human rights group Amnesty International in a new report.

One of two death row prisoners who lost a case in the Oklahoma Supreme Court dies of a heart attack following an apparently botched lethal injection.

Iraqis are voting in the country's first parliamentary elections since the withdrawal of US troops three years ago amid continuing violence.

US Secretary of State John Kerry says Russia should "leave Ukraine in peace", as pro-Russian activists storm another security building in eastern Ukraine.