BP will deploy a small containment cap in the next couple of days to try to trap oil from a blown-out undersea well in the Gulf of Mexico.

A massive bomb has gone off outside Athens' main prison, damaging dozens of shops and homes up to four blocks away, police said.

Authorities in the US have made several arrests in connection with the failed Times Square bombing following a series of raids.

The chief military adviser to Thailand's anti-government protesters has been shot in the head.

Russia's security services have killed three people involved in the suicide attacks on the Moscow metro.

Two Britons and an Irish citizen were among the victims of a plane crash in Libya that killed 103 people.

BP sends in remote-controlled camera to show the extent of the oil gushing from BP's broken pipe nearly a mile under water.