Mario Gotze is set to become the most expensive German player of all time after Bayern Munich announced he will join them this summer.

The French foreign minister has strongly condemned an apparent car bomb explosion outside the country's embassy in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

Russia's Caucasus region has been beset by conflict since the 1990s, and faces an ongoing Islamist insurgency today. Was it also linked to the Boston bombing?

Nokia has won a case calling for HTC to stop using microphone technology developed by the Finnish phone maker.

A toxic slimming drug should be made illegal, say the family of a medical student who died after taking it alongside antidepressants.

The wife of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo makes a rare appearance outside house arrest as her brother goes on trial for fraud in Beijing.

The UK government borrowed £120.6bn in the financial year to April 2013, slightly lower than the amount it borrowed the previous year.

Spanish police arrest two North African suspects thought to be militants linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.

A jury made of six men and six women are selected to hear a wrongful death case brought against promoters AEG by the late singer's family.