Utah will resume the use of firing squads to carry out the death penalty when lethal injections drugs are not available.

The new Uruguayan government announces it will no longer accept detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention centre.

Tunisia's Bardo Museum is due to reopen less than a week after gunmen killed at least 22 people, mostly European tourists, in the capital Tunis.

North Korea rejects South Korean calls for an apology over the sinking of a warship, almost five years after the disaster killed 46 sailors.

A judge has ruled that a woman may seek punitive damages from a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley on the grounds of sexual discrimination.

Gunmen open fire on passing vehicles on a major road in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 13 people, local officials say.

India's Supreme Court strikes down a controversial law which allows police to arrest people for comments made online and on social media.

Scientists in central Australia discover what they say is a 400km-wide underground asteroid crater - the largest impact area ever found.