2009-11-22 10:08
A bear has attacked a man who entered its enclosure at a new park in Switzerland, and a policeman opened fire on the animal to defend the intruder.
2009-11-22 09:44
Sweeping health care legislation has cleared its first hurdle in the US Senate on a party-line vote.
2009-11-21 22:12
Italian prosecutors have requested life in prison for American Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend for allegedly killing Briton Meredith Kercher during a drug-fuelled sex game.
2009-11-21 20:15
A rocket has hit outside the luxury Serena Hotel in Afghanistan's capital, wounding two people, the Interior Ministry says.
2009-11-21 18:17
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has visited the scene of massive floods that killed one person and stranded hundreds after the heaviest rainfall on record in England.
2009-11-21 18:17
Landslides have razed several houses in a mountainous region of Turkey, killing at least three people, a news agency in the country has reported.
2009-11-21 14:14
Sri Lanka has announced it is to release 136 000 ethnic-minority Tamil war refugees from overcrowded government camps.
2009-11-21 09:28
An explosion at a coal mine in China has killed at least 31 workers and left 82 trapped, according to reports.
2009-11-21 09:28
Australia has issued "catastrophic" alerts after record-breaking temperatures and wild lightning storms sparked more than 100 fires across the country.
2009-11-21 12:08
The mother of the man that former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol had planned to marry, has been sentenced to three years in prison.
2009-11-20 22:26
A British police officer has been swept to his death as raging floods engulfed northern England's Lake District following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain.