Business

USstocks have plunged after Senators revealed they have not agreed a deal to bail-out America's ailing auto industry.

Hundreds of Tibetan exiles trying to draw up a blueprint for winning freedom in their homeland will end their six-day crisis meeting on Saturday.

The body of an Austrian billionaire, whose family fortune was built on Nazi slave labour, has been stolen from a graveyard.

Dutch coffee shops - famous for decades for selling cannabis legally - are under threat from a new zero-tolerance policy to drugs.

A vet in Australia thought he was seeing double when a cat in labour gave birth to a two-headed kitten.

So I'm standing in the middle of the world's biggest fireworks display, Kylie Minogue has just finished performing on stage, and earlier on some of those famous types strolled down a red carpet.

An Australian mayor who begged unattractive women to move to his hometown to counter a lack of eligible women has been crowned 'sexist of the year'.

Somali pirates who hijacked the Saudi-owned Sirius Star supertanker are demanding $25m (£17m) in ransom to be paid within 10 days.

Turkey's social services agency wants Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, to be charged over her involvement in a British TV programme on Turkish orphanages.

Amanda Knox's parents are appealing for cash and air miles to help her fight charges over the slaying of British student Meredith Kercher.