June 20, 2013 Iran is ready to suspend enrichment of uranium to 20 per cent, a key demand of world powers at talks over its disputed nuclear program, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

June 20, 2013 A British stunt double for actor Angelina Jolie has sued News Corporation alleging the media company hired private investigators to access her mobile phone voicemail messages to seek information for news stories.

June 20, 2013 Brazilian protesters, angry about a range of political and economic issues, took to the streets for the sixth night in less than two weeks, with some trying to storm city hall in Sao Paulo, South America's largest city.

June 20, 2013 Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to sign a statement at the G8 summit calling for the establishment of a "transitional government" in Syria as quickly as possible, putting more pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

June 19, 2013 He reported from war zones and brought down a top American general with a hard-hitting profile. But now American publishers and readers are mourning the death of young award-winning journalist Michael Hastings, who died on Tuesday in a car accident in Los Angeles.

June 19, 2013 One of the people responsible for bringing the details of a teenage rape case to public attention says she is shocked by the callous attitude to the victim expressed by the tennis star Serena Williams.

June 19, 2013 British Prime Minister David Cameron’s former communications chief Andy Coulson has appeared in court charged with perjury.

June 19, 2013 Angela Merkel's conservatives want to increase the use of German in Europe if they are re-elected in September, calling in their campaign programme for the language to be treated on a par with English and French in top Brussels institutions.

June 19, 2013 Tennis star Serena Williams has raised eyebrows by calling the 16-year Stuebenville rape victim 'lucky.'

June 19, 2013 Charles Saatchi accepted a police caution for assaulting his wife, Nigella Lawson, to avoid having the incident "hanging over all of us for months", he said.