Nike's quarterly profits beat analysts' forecasts as a recovery in US sales and lower material costs help offset continued weakness in China.

BBC's Laura Trevelyan answered your questions

A New York judge frees a man unjustly convicted of murdering a rabbi 23 years ago, offering what she acknowledged was a "grossly inadequate" apology.

Mark Mardell says Obama's legacy looms in Jerusalem

Nearly two in three hate crimes in the US are not reported to police as victims doubt police can or will help, justice department statistics show.

Alec Ross says that social networking is helping devolve power from hierarchies like big media companies and governments

Barack Obama urges Israelis and Palestinians to return to peace talks as he makes his first visit to Israel and the West Bank as US president.

Congress comfortably passes a large spending bill to keep the US government running until the end of September and prevent a shutdown.

Signs of recovery in the US economy are underlined with news that home sales are running at a three-year high, while a confidence index also rose.

Simon & Garfunkel's song The Sound of Silence has become one of 25 recordings to be preserved by the US Library of Congress.

A manhunt is launched after the head of the department of corrections in the US state of Colorado is shot dead at his home.

The chairman of Standard Chartered is forced to issue an apology for "inaccurate" comments relating to the bank's breach of US trade sanctions.

President Barack Obama says the US is "deeply committed" to the creation of an independent Palestinian state during a visit to the West Bank.

The 1995 murder trial of former sports star OJ Simpson is to be dramatised by the Fox network.

Israel must reciprocate Obama's charm, says Mark Mardell

A senior US general plays down reports that more than 20 Guantanamo Bay inmates are on hunger strike, saying they are eating some food.

Harry Reems, the male star of the 1972 infamous pornographic film Deep Throat, dies in Salt Lake City, Utah at the age of 65.

YouTube, the video sharing site owned by Google, has announced it has passed one billion regular users.

Lawmakers in the state of Arizona are considering a law requiring transgender people to use public toilets of the gender on their birth certificate.

An Ohio jury recommends the death penalty for Richard Beasley, convicted of luring men to their deaths with job adverts on Craigslist.