A massive power cut has blacked out northern India, leaving more than 300-million people without power in the worst outage in a decade.
Palestinians have accused US presidential candidate Mitt Romney of undermining peace prospects by calling Jerusalem "the capital of Israel".
A Tehran court has sentenced to death four people convicted in Iran’s biggest-ever banking scandal.
The US wasted about $206-million on building facilities for a now-downsized Iraqi police training programme which a top official termed "useless".
Iran is thinking of boycotting next month’s Venice International Film Festival because of EU sanctions hitting its oil-dependent economy.
Britain’s much-maligned public transport system coped with an unusually quiet early rush hour on the first full working day of the Olympics.
A silicon ring, currently being tested in trials across Africa, could be the new way to prevent HIV infection in women.
Russian women punk band Pussy Riot’s trial – which began on Monday – seems certain to become a defining moment in Vladimir Putin’s political career.
Indian police have concluded that members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards carried out an attack on an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi in February.
Russia has vetoed UN action against Syria, but Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says he’s unsure what role Assad will have in the nation’s future.