Chris Kyle, a former US Navy seal and Iraq veteran known as the deadliest sniper in US history, is shot dead on a Texas shooting range, police say.

The US space agency's Curiosity Mars rover uses its drill for the first time, hammering down briefly into a flat slab of rock on the floor of Gale Crater.

Lisa Sinjab looks at the daily life for the residents of Homs - a city which has seen some of the most ferocious fighting of the Syrian conflict.

Cuba's former leader, Fidel Castro, has voted in Cuba's parliamentary elections - the first time the frail ex-leader has been seen in public for several months.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission sues credit card company Visa for alleged misuse of market power.

At least 500 people have been left homeless after a fire swept through a slum in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka.

Fidel Castro has voted in Cuba's parliamentary elections, the first time the frail ex-leader has been seen in public for several months.

Jacoby Jones stars as Baltimore beat San Francisco 34-31, and survive a power cut, in an epic Super Bowl.

At least 13,000 premature deaths from cancer could be prevented each year in the UK, says the World Cancer Research Fund.

A safety limit on volume levels which comes into force on all new personal music players this month could be ignored by 40% of young people, says a hearing loss charity.

The sex lives of critically endangered hawksbill turtles have been revealed by scientists studying the animals in the Seychelles.

A man accused of brandishing knives outside Buckingham Palace is charged after being Tasered by police and arrested.

Musicians who play for Mexico's drug gangs - voluntarily or not

Fidel Castro votes in Cuba's parliamentary elections, the first time the ageing ex-leader has been seen in public for several months.

Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou confirms that French special forces are protecting one of the country's biggest uranium mines.

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has accused Israel of trying to "destabilise" his country, in his first comments on last week's reported Israeli air strike in Syria.

Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has promised to abolish an unpopular local property tax if his party wins the 24-25 February elections.

Capturing the last stand of the bunkers of World War II

Police in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro are searching for more than 20 prisoners who escaped from a jail through its sewage system.

Can testosterone really reverse man's ageing process?