Updated Coronation Street star William Roache protested his innocence and is "astounded and deeply horrified"…

1. TVNZ won't edit Roache from Coro St

North Korea says an American detained for nearly six months has been sentenced to 15 years of "compulsory labor" for crimes…

1. video US tries to tamp down new concerns over NKorea (1:59)

Bill Roache, who has played Ken Barlow on Coronation St for five decades, will face court later this month accused of twice…

1. video Coro St star 'sorry' for sex abuse comments (1:22)

Three friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have been arrested and accused of removing a backpack…

1. video FBI visits home of wife of dead bombing suspect (1:21)

A convicted Indian spy who was on death row died from a head injury after two inmates attacked him with…

Dozens of Bangladeshi garment workers, their bodies too battered or decomposed to be identified, were buried in a mass funeral…

1. video Neighbours become surgeons in Bangladesh collapse (1:09)

A US woman revealed her new face after a transplant today, six years after her ex-husband disfigured her by dousing her…

1. Burns victims find love, marry

A five-year-old US boy accidentally shot his two-year-old sister to death with a rifle he had received as a gift last year…

It was hailed as a giant step forward for racial integration in a country that has long been ill at ease with its growing…

1. Policemen shot in Rome as Italy gets new government

Police in Peru say the body of a Chilean man accused in the ritual killing of a 3-day-old boy in his…

1. Chile: Four accused of burning baby in rite

Seeing the president slam face-first into the ground after falling from a speeding horse on Monday would be a shock to any…

1. video Turkmen President falls off horse, Media silent (0:39)

A central Pennsylvania woman who mysteriously disappeared after dropping off her children for school 11 years ago has surfaced…

Scientists revealed today that they have found the first solid archaeological evidence that some of the earliest American…

A man is accused of pretending to be a member of British rock band Pink Floyd at a US hospital - and racking up as much…

The leader of Lebanon's Hizbollah militant group said that Syrian rebels will not be able to defeat…

1. video Syrian TV: Damascus blast kills 13 (0:47)

Buddhist mobs hurling bricks overran a pair of mosques and torched more than 100 homes in central Burma, killing one person…

1. video Buddhist mobs set fire to Myanmar villages (0:51)

In an age of austerity when many French towns are groaning under debt, the mayor of a once-poor village now has so much…

1. Brian Rudman: Noise rules could drive you crazy (32 comments)

Australia's bid to prise open the secret world of endemic child sexual abuse in churches and other powerful institutions…

1. Pope is asked to make priestly celibacy optional

The last known rhinoceroses in Mozambique have been wiped out by poachers apparently working in cahoots with the game rangers…

1. Internal bleeding cause of rhino calf's death

A murderous plot by radical Islamists to launch a gun and bomb attack on hundreds of people attending…

1. FBI's 'repeated failings'

United States President Barack Obama is to make a fresh attempt to close Guantanamo Bay prison camp as more doctors were…

1. Obama hints at action in Syria

The White House said yesterday that intelligence officials had concluded that the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad…

1. UN chief urges Syrian access for UN chemical weapons team

The 11th-century minaret of a famed mosque that towered over the narrow stone alleyways of Aleppo's old quarter collapsed…

1. Iraq on edge after deadly raid on protest camp

The US stock market stalled on Saturday after the US economy didn't grow as much as hoped and earnings from a handful of…

1. Apple unveils $100b shareholder payout