A California woman reported missing aged 15 is found alive after years of alleged sexual abuse, and her suspected captor is arrested.

Aid groups negotiate a deal with government and rebels to deliver emergency rations to 60,000 people in the embattled Syrian province of Aleppo.

US Secretary of State John Kerry says that impatience with Venezuela is growing over its failure to address the country's serious political crisis.

Around 50 school children boarded a New York subway train and performed the recorder for 40 minutes.

A police officer, rabbi and a nurse were among more than 70 people arrested by US law enforcement for sharing child pornography through the internet.

Colombians have been mourning the death of 33 children, who were killed when the bus they were travelling on caught fire in the city of Fundacion.

Attackers crash two cars into shoppers at a market in the Xinjiang capital, Urumqi, and throw explosives, Chinese reports say.

Former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky says new sanctions risk playing into the hands of nationalists trying to isolate Moscow from the West.