Sudan will withdraw from peace talks with Darfur rebels if no deal is reached by Thursday, President Omar Bashir says.

Europe's heavy-lift rocket, the Ariane 5, completes its sixth and final mission of 2010, putting two satellites high above the Earth.

French model Isabelle Caro, who gained worldwide publicity posing nude for an anti-anorexia campaign while suffering from the illness, dies at 28.

The US revokes the visa of the Venezuelan ambassador, the state department says, after President Hugo Chavez rejects the US envoy to Caracas.

A fire ravages a 13th-Century Belgian abbey famous for its brewery but the monks escape unhurt and the vats are intact.

Keeping a smartphone fully powered could soon be easier as manufacturers back common standards for chargers.

A US aid worker is released from a prison in Haiti after a judge declines to charge him over allegations he kidnapped an infant from a hospital.

Olympic Marathon champion Samuel Wanjiru is charged with threatening to kill his wife by a court in Kenya.