The man who shot White House aide James Brady in a 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan will not face new murder charges.

Search teams scouring the Java Sea find "two large objects" believed to be from the wreckage of AirAsia flight QZ8501, Indonesian officials say.

A seven-year-old US girl walks to a home in Kentucky to report her plane has crashed, with the four others on board confirmed dead, police say.

Rescue workers will try again to search for victims in the charred car deck of Italy's Norman Atlantic ferry, after safety fears halted operations.

Crews battle out-of-control bushfires threatening homes in South Australia and Victoria, with blazes near Adelaide deemed the worst since 1993.

Alleged al-Qaeda commander Anas al-Liby has died just days before going on trial in New York over the 1998 US embassy attacks in Africa, lawyers say.

Little Jimmy Dickens, the renowned US country music star credited with introducing rhinestone suits to the genre, has died at the age of 94.

Five men are arrested and charged with kidnapping and repeatedly raping a Japanese student over several weeks, police in Calcutta say.