Drones could soon be helping protect rhinos, tigers and elephants in Africa and Asia, thanks to cash from Google.

Users accessing Apple's iTunes Store in Russia have been getting porn images when searching for films to rent.

A painting by a Swedish artist which he says was made with ashes from a former Nazi concentration camp is on display in a Swedish gallery.

Police in Italy say they have recovered a 2,000-year-old Egyptian sphinx stolen from a cemetery near Rome, about to be smuggled out of the country.

Police in Jaffna arrest up to 25 suspects accused of "terrorist activities" amid rising political tensions in northern Sri Lanka.

The European Central Bank revises down its eurozone economic forecasts for this year and next as "economic weakness extends into 2013".

Four former French peacekeepers admit their role in the killing of a suspected gang leader in Ivory Coast in 2005, but say they acted under orders.

The US Congress approves a measure to strike the word "lunatic" from all federal legislation, in an effort to remove demeaning language.