Many Bangladeshi textile factories near the capital, Dhaka, have shut because of unrest sparked by the collapse of a
factory building last month, the country's textile association has said.
When friends and neighbours held a vigil last month to mark the ninth year of Gina DeJesus' disappearance, Ariel Castro was there, comforting her mother.
Three young women who vanished about a decade ago in the US state of Ohio have been found and are in hospital in a fair condition, officials have said.
US federal prosecutors are preparing charges against the surviving Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as more details emerge of his capture.
Tropical Storm Isaac swirled into the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, threatening to disrupt U.S. offshore oil and gas supplies and strengthen into a powerful hurricane that could make landfall near Louisiana almost seven years to the day after Katrina struck.
Shares of Samsung Electronics have suffered their biggest fall in a single day, in almost four years, after a US jury found the technology giant copied designs from Apple.
US cycling star Lance Armstrong has announced he will no longer fight drug charges from the US anti-doping agency, ahead of a Friday deadline.
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