A Russian spacecraft that has been out of control since launching last week will fall back to Earth and burn up on Friday, scientists say.

Sir Elton John tells a US Senate panel Aids could be eradicated in his lifetime, but only if the US government continues funding the fight.

Danish spy agency head Jens Madsen resigns, hours before the release of a report into February's fatal shootings in Copenhagen by an Islamist.

Three members of the so-called Masonic Fraternal Police Department are charged with impersonating law enforcement officers in California.

Canada's lawmakers back a new Anti-Terror Act, dramatically expanding the powers of the country's spy agency.

Yemen urges the UN to authorise the use of foreign ground forces to drive back Houthi rebels, as fighting intensifies in the city of Aden.

Colombia is to extradite a man wanted in Venezuela over the murder of Caracas politician, Robert Serra, last October.

Oscar Holderer, believed to be the last member of the post-WW2 German team whose rocket took US astronauts to the Moon, dies at 95.