WORLD

Landmark sentence against physical punishment for children creates controversy

Tunisian government is battling Ansar al-Sharia militants near Algerian border

Leader of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's Republican People's Party (CHP) says he doesn't want to use his ancestry for political gain

Prosecutor to re-examine case after alleged rape of 14-year-old Daisy Coleman receives worldwide attention

France's Interior minister Manuel Valls under fire for crackdown on illegal Roma migrants

Trial of teenager raped and murdered in Bredasdorp hears of Booysen's horrific injuries.

Musician with links to mass killer Breivik to be tried for inciting racial hatred on the Internet.

British artists make another splash on month-long New York residency.

Body of 27-year-old model found dumped in a ditch in Islamabad while looking to buy a house for her mother.

String of bomb explosions rock Myanmar ahead of Southeast Asian Games.

Global Slavery Index says nearly half of modern slaves in India, with Mauritania having highest proportion.

NSA whistleblower's father Lon Snowden encourages son Edward to 'make sure true story comes out'.

New disclosure details how notorious al-Qaida operative who had unwittingly got away from CIA dragnet was tracked and executed in drone attack in Pakistan.

US Senate earlier agreed on last-minute deal to raise US debt ceiling and end deadlock.

The Court of Cassation in Paris fined Scientology €600,000 for taking advantage of vulnerable believers.

Flight QV301 from Vientiane to Pakse crashed as it was preparing to land

France's anti-Europe Front National and Netherlands' xenophobe Freedom Party to join forces ahead of EU vote

Washington sources claim Republicans and Democrats have brokered 11th-hour truce to avert default and end months-long gridlock.

Illinois users say wounds caused by the drug feel like a cigarette burn before turning into gangrene.

Pakutunkhwa province's minister of law Israullah Gandpur among eight killed by suicide blast.

Federal intelligence officials join probe as Indian authorities' concerns increase.

Scientists faced tough conditions bringing up meteor from lake in the Urals.

Authorities discuss flying body of former SS captain to Germany as Italy commemorates victims of Holocaust.

Another recession, a fall in the value of dollar, rising funding woes for banks, a global market crash -- all these and more could be the fallout of a US default.

The Greek parliament has lifted immunity from prosecution on six neo-Nazi Golden Dawn MPs

Report demands a clampdown on multi-billion pound human trafficking industry across Europe.

Diving instructor discovers rare 18-foot oarfish off Catalina Island.

7.2-magnitude quake ravages central island of Bohol, while Cebu and Siquijor provinces decimated.

Bride accused husband's friend of rape after getting into his bed on wedding night in China.