Ten people were have been charged for their role in a spectacular heist involving a helicopter in Stockholm.

Energy giant BP can extend a test on its capped oil well after determining that nearby seepage is not related to the test.

William Hague has touched down in Kabul ahead of an international conference on the future of Afghanistan.

Chinese authorities have launched a clean-up operation following an explosion of two crude oil pipelines in Dalian.

A gel made using Gilead Sciences Inc's HIV drug tenofovir reduced HIV infections in women by 39 per cent over two and a half years.

Drug hitmen have stormed a birthday party, killing 17 people in the northern Mexican city of Torreon on Sunday.

A Briton has been killed in a suicide attack on a convoy of UK private security vehicles in northern Iraq.

26,000 have died in drug related attacks in Mexico since the president of the country declared war on drug cartels.

Emergency crews have been trying to drain overflowing reservoirs to prevent a massive dam in China from flooding.

Former South Africa president Nelson Mandela has marked his 92nd birthday, surrounded by his family at home in Johannesburg.