Canadian authorities charge a man with second-degree murder in the death of Tina Fontaine, one of many women found dead in Winnipeg's Red River.

Saudi Arabia is to go to the polls for unprecedented elections in which women will cast a ballot for the first time.

A German nuclear fusion experiment produces a special super-hot gas which scientists hope will eventually lead to clean, cheap energy.

Cuba and the United States agree to restore a direct postal service, suspended 52 years ago at the height of the Cold War.

The future for adult social care services in England "looks bleak", the International Longevity Centre warns, despite government attempts to protect budgets.

Organisers of climate talks in Paris say a final draft text has been agreed after nearly two weeks of intensive negotiations.

All the Taliban gunmen involved in a deadly attack on a foreign guesthouse near the Spanish embassy in Kabul have been killed, Afghan officials say.

A new gene therapy technique is able to genetically modify prostate cancer cells so that a patient's body attacks and kills them, US scientists have discovered.