About 120 million girls around the world - more than one in 10 - have been raped or sexually assaulted by the age of 20, a UN report says.

Western countries prepare further sanctions against Russia over its intervention in Ukraine ahead of peace talks due to be held on Friday.

The operator of an exchange for the virtual currency Bitcoin pleads guilty in New York to running an unlicensed money transmitting business.

A report into a botched execution in Oklahoma in April finds medical staff failed to place and monitor an intravenous line properly.

Two separate bombs in Iraq's capital Baghdad leave at least 20 people dead and dozens more injured amid rising sectarian tension in the country.

The former governor of the US state of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, and his wife are convicted of corruption, after receiving gifts in return for endorsements.

The governor of the US state of Nevada says that the Tesla electric car manufacturer has chosen his state as the site for a $5bn battery factory.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expresses careful optimism that a deal can be agreed with Russia to end fighting in the east of his country.