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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. The election-year initiative addresses a top priority of an influential Latino electorate that has been vocal in its opposition to administration deportation policies....

The Italian government hopes to raise 10bn euros (£8.1bn; $12.6bn) selling off state-owned companies, in a bid to reduce its crippling debt mountain.

Russell Brand on sharing a stage with the Dalai Lama

...or how to make a meal of a bad-news story

Economist | The new bullet is supposedly more accurate when distances are increased.

They are always the last to understand.

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) -- A judge ruled Friday that a JetBlue Airways pilot who left the cockpit during a flight and screamed about religion and terrorists is mentally competent to stand trial....

Reports that a banana was thrown on to the pitch during the match between Italy and Croatia are being investigated by Uefa.

A Kurdish man who is deaf and unable to speak may be jailed for 25 years in Turkey for supporting terrorism, with a half-lemon cited as evidence.

BERLIN (AP) -- The forest boy mystery is solved: It's not true....

BERLIN (AP) -- The forest boy mystery is solved: It's not true....

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- Bosnia's war crimes court convicted four former Bosnian Serb soldiers on Friday of participating in the execution of hundreds of Srebrenica Muslims during the country's 1992-95 conflict and sentenced them to a total of 142 years in prison....

China has named the female astronaut who on Saturday is set to become the nation's first woman in space.

TOKYO (AP) -- His trail cold for years, the last fugitive suspected in a doomsday cult's deadly nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subways in 1995 was caught at a comic book cafe Friday, closing a chapter on Japan's worst terrorist attack....

TOKYO (AP) -- His trail cold for years, the last fugitive suspected in a doomsday cult's deadly nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subways in 1995 was caught at a comic book cafe Friday, closing a chapter on Japan's worst terrorist attack....

The former Pussycat Doll singer is to replace Kelly Rowland on the judging panel for the new series.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Republicans set out a bold conservative agenda after taking control of state capitols across the Midwest and South in the last general election. They wanted to cut taxes and spending, put new limits on labor unions, crack down on illegal immigrants and give parents more alternatives to traditional public schools....

Campaigners have warned that there are fresh efforts by the Ethiopian government to clamp down on certain types of internet use in the country.

Wayne Brady mocks game show anger, Jimmy Fallon ridicules Piers Morgan and Ice-T says he is funny - until he shoots you.

A blind man has been given the job of reading the news on South Korea's state broadcasting channel.