May 19, 2013 A university student being held at gunpoint by a masked intruder has been accidentally shot and killed by a New York police officer responding to the attack.

May 19, 2013 Myanmar President Thein Sein has begun the first visit to Washington by a leader of his country in nearly 50 years with the United States throwing its support behind his reforms.

May 19, 2013 A backpacker has died while trekking through the Indonesian jungle after she drank suspected tainted alcohol, police say.

May 19, 2013 The shelling of the US embassy in Libya is dividing opinion, writes Chief Correspondent Paul McGeough in Washington.

May 19, 2013 Rolf Harris was scheduled to go ahead with a concert on Saturday night, even as he waited to discover whether he would face charges over sex assault allegations.

May 18, 2013 The most powerful meteor strike on the moon ever observed has just been announced by NASA.

May 18, 2013 British police say they have more than 20 suspects in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the British toddler who vanished from a family holiday in Portugal six years ago.

May 18, 2013 Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts, woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, according to the first public sworn testimony by the Moroccan woman at the center of the scandal.

May 18, 2013 For almost five years Indonesia did not execute a prisoner on death row. But since a Malawian drug smuggler broke that drought on March 15, the floodgates have opened. In the early hours of Friday, three people - all Indonesians and all murderers - were taken from their cells and shot.

May 18, 2013 Two men are dead after a desperate act to save their friends, writes Michael Bachelard.