Canada's Royal Ontario Museum will take two blue whale carcasses that washed up on the coast of western Newfoundland.

A teenager is arrested in connection with the fatal shooting in Alaska of two state troopers who appeared in a reality television show.

Authorities in Honduras are investigating the deaths of at least seven children who may have been murdered after refusing to join criminal gangs.

Samsung is ordered to pay $119.6m (£71m) to Apple by a US court for infringing two of its patents, in the latest lawsuit involving the two tech giants.

US President Barack Obama will ask Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate problems surrounding the application of the death penalty following a botched execution.

The Imola circuit where Ayrton Senna died 20 years ago is holding four days of tributes to the Brazilian.

Uruguay's authorities reveal how marijuana will be produced and sold legally in the country at less than $1 a gramme.

Ukraine's government resumes military action to tackle pro-Russian separatists in the east, after a day of deadly violence in which dozens died.