A Miami college student plans to plead guilty in federal court to threatening President Barack Obama on Facebook.
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Lab scientists reported that for the first time they had taken skin cells from patients who had suffered heart failure and turned them into cells that could repair damaged cardiac muscle.
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Authorities found and deactivated a bomb at a Buenos Aires theater where former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe was due to deliver a speech.
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A mountain lion was shot dead when it tried to bolt from police and animal-control officers, called in after the animal strayed into an ocean-front Californian town.
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A man survived a plunge of at least 180 feet (55 meters) over Niagara Falls in an apparent suicide attempt - only the third person known to have lived after going over the falls without a safety device.
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A global network that used social networking sites such as Facebook to distribute child pornography has been smashed after a tip-off from New Zealand authorities, officials said.
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A man who dressed up as his mother in a bizarre real estate fraud that involved doctoring her death certificate and cashing her Social Security retirement checks for six years after she died was sentenced to more than 13 years behind bars.
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An Australian doctor accused of infecting 56 women with hepatitis C while trying to conceal his own drug use has been ordered to stand trial.
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Only one in six of Europe's young Romas have studied beyond primary school, while half of the population lacks a toilet, shower or electricity, a new report said.
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Emergency crews raced to Melbourne Airport when a packed passenger plane was forced to return after a soft drink can with the word "bomb" scribbled on it was found onboard, police said.
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Polling stations opened across Egypt for the historic first presidential poll since a popular uprising toppled Hosni Mubarak, capping a tumultuous transition from autocratic rule.
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A man who survived a plunge of at least 180 feet (55 meters) over Niagara Falls - only the third person known to have done so without a safety device - was in stable condition, a day after his apparent suicide attempt led to a dramatic and painstaking rescue.
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Friends and family met privately to remember Mary Richardson Kennedy, the 52-year-old estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who was found dead of an apparent suicide last week at her home in Bedford, New York.
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The world's tallest tower and Japan's biggest new landmark, the Tokyo Skytree, opened to the public.
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The topless activists of the Femen women's rights group, whose eye-catching antics have made them the cover girls of international feminist protest, are shouting loud and clear that their attendance at next month's Euro-2012 soccer tournament - welcome or not - can be counted on
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"We should not be judged by the size of our breasts or the shape of our body"
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