US Secretary of State John Kerry welcomes an agreement aimed at ending fighting in Ukraine, but demands Russia end support for separatist rebels.

The two men charged with planning a terror act in Sydney made a video threatening to stab kidneys and strike at necks, PM Tony Abbott tells parliament.

Sri Lanka's new government wants the UN to delay releasing its report into war crimes committed during the 26-year long civil war.

Scientists have uncovered more than 90 new gene regions that could help explain why some people are more likely to put on weight than others.

There is hope for Greek debt deal with the Eurozone by next Monday despite the lack of a deal at Thursday's talks, Greece's finance minister says.

The Deep Space Climate Observatory launches from Florida on a mission to monitor both the Sun and the Earth.

Six inmates who held a warden and guard hostage at a prison in Kaohsiung, Taiwan for 14 hours have killed themselves, says the justice ministry.

Colombia's second largest rebel group, the ELN, releases a Dutch citizen who had been held in captivity for more than a year.