An official photograph of Prince George is released to mark his first birthday, ahead of a party at Kensington Palace on Tuesday.

A US court orders the country's second largest cigarette company to pay huge damages to the wife of a smoker who died of lung cancer.

After 97 years of family ownership, Forbes Media announces it has sold a majority stake of the firm to a Hong Kong-based group of international investors.

Mexican authorities begin the transfer of children from the House of the Big Family children's home, as families complain of abuse.

Bolivia approves legislation to allow 'self-employed children' to work from the age of 10 provided they go to school and get parental supervision.

The rate of HIV infections diagnosed in the United States has fallen by a third in the past 10 years, a new study finds.

Israel has expanded its ground operation against Hamas, the army says, as Gazans report the heaviest shelling in 13 days of conflict.

A US court orders the execution of an Arizona death row man to be delayed until he gets more details about the lethal injection procedure he faces.