A huge US energy supplier, Duke Energy, is fined $1m (£620,000) over the deaths of golden eagles at two wind farms in the state of Wyoming.

Joseph Naso, the California man convicted of murdering four women whose names and surnames bore matching initials, is sentenced to death.

Rescuers in the Latvian capital, Riga, spend a second night searching through the rubble of a supermarket that collapsed, killing more than 50 people.

China has demarcated an "air-defence identification zone" over the East China Sea, including disputed islands which are also claimed by Japan.

Mauritania is holding parliamentary and local elections, despite a boycott by almost all the country's radical opposition parties.

England finish day three in disarray after Australia's Michael Clarke and David Warner help set the tourists 561 to win the first Test.

Negotiators were preparing for a long final session at the National Stadium in Warsaw as UN talks on climate change crawled to a conclusion.

The Queen's representative in Australia reportedly becomes the first serving governor-general to publicly back the country becoming a republic.