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Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former US president Bill Clinton, is to marry long-term boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky at a private ceremony.

A report into the bushfires that tore across Victoria, Australia, in early 2009 has called for sweeping changes to the way the authorities respond to natural disasters.

A wildfire burning in southern California has grown to more than 20 square miles and is threatening power lines that supply electricity to millions of people.

The first gay weddings have taken place in Argentina after the implementation of a law approved by parliament earlier this month.

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has insisted his ruling right-wing coalition will survive despite a split with his party's co-founder, Gianfranco Fini.

President Nicolas Sarkozy has said he would like to strip French nationality from anyone of foreign origin who threatens the life of a police officer.

Workers from Mexico City restsurants make a 48m-long sandwich in what has become an annual event.

Two Middle Eastern heads of state have been making an unprecedented joint visit to Lebanon and call for calm.

Greece is to mobilise military vehicles to restore fuel supplies cut by a lorry drivers' strike, officials have said.

Incoming BP chief executive Bob Dudley has said it is time to scale back some parts of the oil spill clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico.

Wild fires have continued to rage in central and western Russia, with more than 20 people now reported to have died.

A gang armed with firebombs attacks a private TV and radio station in Colombo, linked to former opposition presidential candidate, Sarath Fonseka.

China is struggling with an arduous clean up after the country's worst oil spill, with grim conditions for those involved.

More than 400 people have been killed and nearly 400,000 displaced in floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains in northern Pakistan.

Hundreds of British soldiers have launched an operation against Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan

A Canadian woman has said she played dead in order to escape from a bear during an attack in Montana that left one man dead.

California governor Arnold Schwazenegger has declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles county where dozens of homes and buildings have been destroyed by wildfires.

Young French people having difficulty finding affordable housing are being given the chance to help older members of society and put a roof over their own heads.

Animal welfare groups in Greece are calling for the closure of the country's first dolphinarium and urging schools not to visit the attraction.

North Korea appears to be in the grip of massive floods after at least a week of torrential rain, according to reports on the country's state-run television station.