US President Barack Obama\'s chief counter-terrorism adviser says the United States government is forging a new approach to tackling violent extremism.
The two American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who were found guilty and sentenced to hard labour for entering North Korea illegally in March, have been pardoned.
The United Nations food agency says its facing critical funding shortages that have forced it to cut aid deliveries to millions of people facing starvation.
A tough new media law, under which journalists could be imprisoned for publishing material viewed as a threat to the state, has been proposed in Venezuela.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. is at fault over an alleged racial incident that happened outside his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home.
Bangladesh health officials say a toxic chemical added to a popular pain reliever likely caused the deaths of approximately 25 children in that country.
A top lawyer who was struggling to balance a demanding career with caring for her three children drowned herself in the Thames, an inquest has heard, according to a report on www.news.bbc.co.uk.
