A Wisconsin prosecutor decides not to charge a white police officer in the death of a mixed race man in Madison.

Russia delays for about a month the return of three astronauts on the International Space Station after the recent failure of its supply spaceship.

A global school league table from the OECD puts Asian countries at the top, the UK in 20th and the US trailing in 28th place, behind countries including Vietnam.

North Korea's Defence Minister Hyon Yong-chol has been executed, says South Korea's spy agency - according to media reports.

A teenage girl appears in a Mexican court in a custody case filed by a US woman, weeks after another girl was wrongly sent to America.

In the wake of a stimulatory budget, Australia's opposition parties prepare for an election as early as this year, though PM Tony Abbott rules it out.

An Amtrak passenger train from Washington to New York derails in Philadelphia, killing at least five people and injuring dozens, officials say.

Rescue work resumes after the latest deadly earthquake in Nepal, after thousands of scared residents spent the night in the open.