Swiss adventurers Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg embark on a record-breaking attempt to fly around the world in a solar-powered plane.

Relatives of an Australian pair sentenced to death by Indonesia expect to see them for the first time since they arrived at execution site.

Venezuela is installing fingerprint scanners in supermarkets, in a move designed to help reduce food hoarding and panic buying.

Thousands of people gather in Alabama to mark the 50th anniversary of the landmark Selma civil rights march.

A long-awaited Cycling Independent Reform Commission report concludes a culture of doping in cycling continues to exist.

A 40-year-old man is arrested in the Japanese city of Sumoto over a stabbing attack that left five people dead, report local media.

Police in north-eastern India say they have arrested 18 people over the lynching of a suspected rapist who was dragged from jail by a mob.

PM Tony Abbott defends Australia's controversial treatment of asylum seekers, saying he is "sick of being lectured" by the UN.