A single-engine plane makes a successful emergency landing on a US interstate highway in the Bronx borough of New York, following a failure.

The head of the Nicaragua canal project, linking the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, says construction will not begin this year as planned.

Parts of the US are braced for potentially record-breaking low temperature as an Arctic chill brings more freezing weather to the US and Canada.

A US ice-breaker, the Polar Star, is to help two ships stuck in thick ice in Antarctica, after requests from China and Australia.

England collapse in dismal fashion once again as Australia win the final Ashes Test by 281 runs and the series 5-0.

The US says it will help Iraq fight al-Qaeda-linked militants, but not with troops, after the government loses control of key city Fallujah.

Portugal football legend Eusebio, who is widely considered one of the best players of all-time, dies aged 71.

A British man who was shot dead in Libya is named by the UK Foreign Office as energy worker Mark De Salis, who had been working in Tripoli for six years.