Records of Australian births, marriages and deaths have been published on a website.

Teen mother Bristol Palin, the daughter of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, says she is engaged to Levi Johnston.

A four day-old baby Grant's zebra has been on display for the first time at Rome's zoo.

An explosion at the largest coke manufacturing facility in the US has injured at least 15 people.

Nine thrill-seeking runners were injured, three by goring, in a dangerous last running of the bulls at Spain's San Fermin festival.

African soldiers from countries in France's former colonial empire marched in the annual Bastille Day parade in Paris.

A Pakistan-born American who has admitted to trying to set off a car bomb in Times Square made a suicide video beforehand.

Severe flooding and landslides in China and the Philippines have killed over 100 people and left dozens missing on Wednesday.

Suspected al Qaeda gunmen assaulted two south Yemen security offices in coordinated shooting attacks, killing at least two people.

Heavy rainfall and hurricane force winds hit a Haitian tent camp for people whose homes were destroyed by the January earthquake.

Six police officers have been charged in connection with the fatal shootings of two people in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Crucial tests on a new device to cap the ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico have been delayed.