Dentist Walter Palmer apologises to his patients for the disruption caused by the backlash against him over the killing of a lion in Zimbabwe.

EX-Virginia governor Jim Gilmore enters the crowded race for the US presidency, making him the 17th Republican to vie for the White House.

The vast majority of children bought and sold for sex every night in the United States are American, a BBC investigation finds.

Half the world's estimated online population now check into social networking giant Facebook at least once a month.

India says it has carried out the execution of Yakub Memon, the man convicted of financing the deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings.

An Egyptian court is to rule in the retrial of three Al-Jazeera journalists previously jailed for allegedly aiding the Muslim Brotherhood.

Hundreds of migrants hoping to get to Britain gather for a third night along fencing close to the Channel Tunnel freight terminal in Calais.

A lorry in central Mexico ploughs into a religious procession, killing at least 16 pilgrims and injuring about 30, officials say.