A millionaire charged with murder in Los Angeles appeared before a judge in Louisiana for a second day, to face new drug and weapons charges.

The US Secret Service says it is conducting further tests on an envelope posted to the White House which may contain cyanide.

A US university fraternity has been suspended while police investigate allegations that nude female photos were posted to a private Facebook page.

Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of Singapore, is critically ill in hospital and his condition has deteriorated, the government says.

Serbian police arrest seven men accused of taking part in the slaughter of over 1,000 Muslims in the Srebrenica massacre, prosecutors say.

Dozens of people are hurt and some 350 people arrested in a protest involving anti-austerity demonstrators in the German city of Frankfurt.

Emergency aid is beginning to reach some of the worst-hit islands of Vanuatu, after a cyclone tore through flattening entire villages.

Sierra Leone's Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana has been sacked for seeking political asylum in the US embassy, the president's office says.