06:06 Thu May 23, 2013

Amnesty International says the world has become an increasingly dangerous place for refugees and migrants.

06:51 Thu May 23, 2013

US car giant Ford Motor will shut all its Australian manufacturing plants by October 2016, after more than 85 years of making vehicles in the country.

06:26 Thu May 23, 2013

A Chechen immigrant living in Florida was shot and killed during a violent confrontation with Boston bombing investigators, officials have said.

06:20 Thu May 23, 2013

Renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who died in March, is due to be buried in his home town in Anambra state.

14:51 Thu May 23, 2013

A man has been killed in a machete attack and two suspects shot and wounded by police in Woolwich, south-east London.

06:55 Yesterday

Rescuers worked through the night and into the morning in the rubble.

06:03 Tue May 21, 2013

Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius will not compete again this year as he awaits trial for murder

06:53 Tue May 21, 2013

Paul Mosley, jailed for his part in the deaths of six children in a house fire, is to appeal against the length of his jail term, his legal team has said.

09:53 Tue May 21, 2013

A gigantic tornado has ripped through a suburb of Oklahoma City, on the second day in a row the Midwestern state of Oklahoma has been slammed by twisters.

06:08 Tue May 21, 2013

More than 70 people have been killed and many others injured in a series of bomb attacks across Iraq.

06:14 Mon May 20, 2013

Their system uses detectors which have a single pixel to sense light instead of the millions of pixels used in the imaging sensors of digital cameras.

05:58 Mon May 20, 2013

A guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison of the Beatles has sold for $408,000 (£269,000) at auction.