Werner Mauss, once a top spy nicknamed "the German James Bond", goes on trial in Germany on charges of tax evasion.

Prosecutors say a 20-year-old man has confessed to going on a murderous rampage in a shopping centre in Burlington, which left five people dead.

A Sri Lankan newspaper editor who wrote before his murder in 2009 that the government would kill him is to be exhumed for investigation.

The US puts sanctions on a Chinese company and four executives alleged to have helped North Korea's nuclear programme.

Herschell Gordon Lewis, the horror filmmaker known as the "godfather of gore," has died at the age of 87.

The Australian government scraps a plan to impose a 32.5% tax on backpacker workers.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei advises former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not to run for re-election next year, state media has reported.

The American series has cast its first transgender child actor for a forthcoming episode called A Stereotypical Day.