Los Angeles officials offer a $1m reward in the manhunt for fugitive ex-police officer Christopher Dorner, suspected of three murders.

A man suspected of being the chief of security for Mexico's most wanted drug dealer is captured without a shot being fired, military officials say.

Pop star Taylor Swift kicks off the 55th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, the most prestigious music awards in the US.

Lolong, a six metre-long saltwater crocodile weighing over 1,000kg, dies in an eco-park in the Philippines.

The chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir state criticises the secretive hanging of Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri militant sentenced to death over the 2001 attack on Indian parliament.

One of the two Australian DJs who made a prank call to the London hospital where the Duchess of Cambridge was being treated is back on air.

The French consumer, agriculture and food ministers are to hold emergency talks with key players in the meat industry as the horsemeat scandal widens.

The fatal stampede at the Allahabad railway station may have occurred because of the sheer number of people there, India's railway minister says.