International

(BBC) -- Ukrainian opposition leaders are due to meet President Viktor Yanukovych, a day after the first deaths in protests that have gripped Kiev for two months. One of them, former boxer Vitali Klitschko, has said he will lead pro-EU…

(BBC) -- Police in India's West Bengal state have arrested 13 men in connection with a gang rape of a woman, allegedly on orders of village elders who objected to her relationship with a man. The 20-year-old woman has been admitted to a…

(BBC)--Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned that protests in Ukraine are "getting out of control". He described violent clashes between anti-government protesters and police as "scary" and accused EU politicians of stirring…

(BBC)--US President Barack Obama will visit Pope Francis on a European tour in March, the White House has said. The White House said Mr Obama looked forward to discussing their "shared commitment to fighting poverty and growing…

(BBC)--There is clear evidence that Syria has systematically tortured and executed about 11,000 detainees since the start of the uprising, a report by three former war crimes prosecutors says. The investigators examined thousands of still…

(CNN) -- A Maryland mother stabbed two of her children to death and wounded two others while attempting an exorcism, authorities said. Zakieya L. Avery, 28, was charged Saturday with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of…

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- At least 13 people were killed and 28 others were wounded in a suicide bombing Monday at a market near the Pakistani Army's headquarters, police said. Those killed in the attack at the Royal Artillery Bazaar…

(CNN) -- An 88-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after shooting his wife in the chest at a Nevada hospital, authorities said. William Dresser was being held on $225,000 bail and has been put on suicide watch. He…

Washington (AP) -- President Barack Obama said he doesn't think marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol, "in terms of its impact on the individual consumer." "As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad…

(BBC)-- Jobless migrants from within the European Union will be denied access to housing benefit from April this year, senior government ministers have said. Home Secretary Theresa May and Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith told…

(BBC)-- Credit card details from almost half of all South Koreans have been stolen and sold to marketing firms. The data was stolen by a computer contractor working for a company called the Korea Credit Bureau that produces credit scores.…

(CNN) -- The Ganja Law Reform Coalition (GLRC) says it is expecting a large number of growers, smokers, other users and sympathisers with the cause from the United States at today's Cannabis Stakeholders Forum at the University of the West…

(CNN) Security forces killed seven militants in a counterterrorism operation in Russia's southern republic of Dagestan, security officials said Saturday, according to the country's state news agency RIA Novosti. The six men and one woman…

(CNN) A group of passengers who were aboard an Asiana Airlines flight that crash-landed last summer has sued aircraft manufacturer Boeing, according to a lawsuit filed in an Illinois court. "We are asking for damages to be paid to the…

(BBC) Aid has reached the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk in the Syrian capital Damascus for the first time in months, Palestinian officials say. Some 18,000 Palestinian refugees in the camp have not seen an aid delivery since July.…