Four Air France employees are sacked following violent protests at the company's headquarters in October.

A former German sniper is sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiring to kill a US federal agent on behalf of drugs traffickers in Liberia.

A new study finds that obesity rates among US adults are on the rise again after years of slow decline.

A US appeal court rejects a ruling which had declared long delays on California's death row were "cruel" and "unconstitutional".

The US lifts economic sanctions against Liberia as President Obama praises its commitment to democracy since the end of the 2003 civil war.

A reputed mobster is acquitted of planning a brazen 1978 airport heist that helped to inspire the Mafia film Goodfellas.

Two US B-52 bomber flew near Chinese-built islands in the South China Sea, despite warnings from Chinese ground control, the Pentagon says.

US forces have carried out an air strike in Syria targeting the British Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John", the Pentagon says.