The tech-heavy Nasdaq index closes at a record high, surpassing a level it last reached in 2000 at the height of the dot com bubble.

Argentina and Russia sign a series of framework agreements on economic and energy co-operation following talks in Moscow.

Swedish scientists have decoded the DNA of woolly mammoths raising the possibility of recreating the now extinct creatures

Final clinical trials of a malaria vaccine - the first to reach this stage - suggest it could protect one third of children against malaria, according to data published in The Lancet.

Indonesia summons foreign embassy officials to the prison holding 10 foreign drug smugglers, an indication their execution could be nearing.

World leaders gather to mark the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign, one of the bloodiest of World War One, in which 141,000 soldiers died.

Switzerland is the world's happiest country, according to a new survey, closely followed by Iceland, Denmark, Norway and Canada.

Armenia begins commemorations to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks.