A Frenchwoman has confessed to suffocating eight of her newborn babies and hiding their bodies in a village, a prosecutor has said.

The second of two US Navy officers who vanished in a dangerous part of Afghanistan has been found dead.

Hundreds of protesters in Duisburg have called for the resignation of mayor Adolf Sauerland following the weekend's Love Parade music festival tragedy.

A mother who thought she had lost her baby in the Haiti earthquake has been reunited with her daughter six months after she last saw her.