US employment rose in April for the seventh month in a row but the overall unemployment rate has also risen.

The prosecutor of the UN-backed tribunal files a new indictment in the investigation of the 2005 killing of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Voters in Singapore goes to the polls today in the most hotly contested general election in recent memory.

Egyptian protest groups that helped overthrow President Hosni Mubarak are to meet in an effort to formulate a plan ahead of elections.

A radical US-born preacher who heads the world's most active al-Qaeda cell was targeted by a drone just days after Osama Bin Laden's death, reports say.

An ex-Rutgers University student agrees a deal with prosecutors over charges of spying via webcam on a classmate who then committed suicide.

A border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia is threatening to overshadow the opening of the annual Asean summit.

Rescuers recover a ninth body from the remains of a coal mine in northern Mexico destroyed by a gas explosion, as hopes for those trapped fade.