Controversial Slovenian group Laibach are to be the first foreign contemporary band to play in North Korea, director Morten Traavik tells the BBC.

Tension is mounting as scientists await confirmation that a flyby of Pluto by Nasa's New Horizons probe was a success.

President Barack Obama calls sweeping reforms to the US criminal justice system including curbing solitary confinement and voting rights for felons.

A signal received from the New Horizons spacecraft shows that it survived its historic encounter with Pluto.

At least 27 pilgrims have died in a stampede at a Hindu festival in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, officials say.

The International Monetary Fund attacks the bailout deal eurozone leaders have offered to keep the country in the euro saying debt relief is needed.

Facing heavy criticism, an Australian company cancels tours of a New South Wales forest where a serial killer buried his victims.

A leading Venezuelan opposition figure, Maria Corina Machado, has been barred from public office for a year.