Nearly 100 people were arrested amid city centre rioting after Vancouver's ice hockey team lost the deciding game of the Stanley Cup final, police say.
French health authorities say seven children have been hospitalized with E. coli infections in northern France, five of them after eating defrosted beef burgers.
A number of senior aides have left the 2012 presidential campaign team of Republican former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, citing strategic differences.
The World Health Organization says a deadly outbreak of E.coli bacteria that has killed 18 people in Europe is a unique strain that has never been found in infected patients before.
A hacker group has claimed it has attacked the Sony network and stolen more than one million passwords, email addresses and other information.
Germany's coalition government has announced a reversal of policy that will see all the country's nuclear power plants phased out by 2022.
It had lasted almost 16 years. But then - in a dawn raid on a nondescript house in northern Serbia - one of the world's most wanted men was finally captured.
DNA found on the clothes of a New York hotel maid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her matches that of the former IMF chief, US media reports say.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected comments from US President Obama that a future Palestinian state must be based on the 1967 borders.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been granted bail by a judge in a New York court, after being formally charged with trying to rape a hotel maid.