Campaigners in Thailand have voiced their concern at the growing number of children as young as seven being involved in prize-fighting.

A fire which devasted a rehabilitation clinic for drug addicts in Peru has killed 26 patients.

A woman's body has been found in a large holdall bag in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland.

UN nuclear inspectors have arrived in Iran, hoping to shed light on suspected military aspects of Tehran's atomic work.

The Arab League has suspended its monitoring mission in Syria because of worsening violence in the country.

Divers have found the body of a woman on the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia, bringing the total number of known dead to 17.

Over 1,000 convicts in Kyrgyzstan have called off a hunger strike which saw them sew their mouths shut with steel wire for two weeks.

Mountains, snow, wind, cold, sun, dogs, sleds and mushers. Those are elements you meet in various combinations when you go to cover the Sedivackuv long dog sled race in the Czech Republic's Orlicke...

The Pentagon has unveiled plans to cut troop numbers by nearly 100,000 over the next decade.

Police in America have removed at least 74 cats from a camper truck in Washington State.

Waste is being used in the Philippines to meet demand for classrooms.

Jean-Claude Mas, who sparked a global health scare by selling substandard breast implants, has been released from police custody.