Voters in Trinidad and Tobago head to the polls with crime and corruption key concerns.

An employee falls to his death at Taiwan iPhone maker Foxconn, the ninth suicide at the firm this year.

The strange decline of instant messaging

An American couple on holiday in Yemen are reportedly kidnapped by armed tribesmen near the capital Sanaa.

Bangkok reopens for business after last week's violence, but the military seeks to extend an overnight curfew for a week.

Last episode of long-running series Lost reviewed

Researchers show off a transistor made from just seven atoms that could be used to create smaller, more powerful computers.

Brittany Murphy's husband Simon Monjack is found dead at his home, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Social network founder Mark Zuckerberg has broken his silence to pledge simpler privacy controls for users "as soon as possible".

Cambodia's UN-backed genocide court sets a 26 July date for the verdict in the case of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch.

The Hubble Space Telescope captures evidence of a Sun-like star "eating" an Earth-like planet, in the constellation Auriga.

Cuba reportedly eases jail conditions for political detainees after talks with Church leaders and a public hunger strike.

The UK is lagging behind other high income countries on cutting child mortality and is the worst in Western Europe, international figures show.

British director Mike Leigh loses out on the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or to a mystical drama from Thailand.

William Hague says the euro is "in crisis" but it is not in the UK's interest for countries to pull out of the single currency.

Eye-catching images from around the world

A web firm that actively 'colluded' with many net criminal groups has been dismantled by US authorities.

British PM Gordon Brown is "mortified" after being caught on microphone calling a voter he had spoken to a "bigoted woman".

Scientists detect water-ice on the surface of an asteroid for the first time.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has applied for a visa to visit the United States ahead of next week's nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference, the US says.