Russian carrier Amurskoe disappears in a storm in the Sea of Okhotsk.
Sea school sailing ship in trouble after being battered by Hurricane Sandy in 20ft seas off North Carolina coast.
Report claims government crackdown on gang chiefs has created power vacuum and persuaded younger members to perpetrate acts of extreme violence.
Iran says pictures were transmitted by Hezbollah drone before it was shot down by Israeli forces.
North Korea threatens military action if anti-dictatorship leaflets are dropped across border.
Indonesian police are continuing their investigation, following the arrests of 11 suspected militants in a series of coordinated raids across the country last week.
Restrictions on setting up new branches in London are seen as a major worry for Chinese banks.
Early results suggest Yanukovych's party has beaten opposition bloc led by jailed Yulia Tymoshenko, with Vitali Klitschko's Punch party coming in fourth.
Blasts in Baghdad neighbourhoods leave dozens dead, including three children, on the second day of the Eid holiday.
Ken Clarke backtracks on hint that promised couples' tax break unlikely to materialise.
Nearly 150 people were killed on the first day of the truce, claim activists.
Conservatives pledged tax breaks for married couples in their 2010 manifesto.
Berlusconi will not serve jail sentence until the lengthy appeal process is over.
Italy's colourful, controversial - and now convicted - ex-premier has never been far from the public eye.
Human rights campaigners accuse Myanmar government of failing to prevent Rohingya massacre.
Polls show Obama ahead in Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Virginia, Colorado and Nevada.
Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi sentenced and banned from public office.
As the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal threw up allegations that Savile was part of an organised Paedophile ring.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to four years in jail by a court in Milan for tax fraud.
President Karzai urges Taliban to 'stop killing other Afghans' as dozens die in suicide attack on mosque.
Beijing blocks websites inside China over story on wealth of outgoing premier Wen Jiabao's family.
British man, Christopher Tappin, the retired businessman, who was accused of selling weapons parts to Iran, is to change his plea to guilty after reportedly reaching a deal with US prosecutors ahead of his US trial on the 1st November.
A suicide bomb attack by a man wearing a police uniform, has killed 37 people and injured 40 more, many critical at a mosque in Maymana northern Afghanistan.
Expulsion of Bo Xilai from Chinese legislature expected to speed up criminal proceedings against him.
Rebels and pro-Assad troops maintain that Eid truce will be abandoned if opponents initiate attack.
UK Independence Party leader denies he told Iranian news agency West had plans for supranational world-domination.
Government in exile urges countrymen to avoid ultimate protest as Beijing arrests five monks over Free Tibet demonstration.
Former Republican Secretary of State says he will vote for President Obama as Romney’s foreign policy is a 'moving target.'
As the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse allegations continue to rise. Questions are being asked if he was part of a much wider and select paedophile network of high profile individuals.
'Caonima Style', which allows dissidents to criticise government without breaching swearing regulations, removed after becoming sensation in China.