Billionaire investor Carl Icahn says he has built up a "large" stake in Apple saying that the company is "extremely undervalued".

Thieves and fraudsters should not be jailed, a legal expert says in a pamphlet released by the Howard League for Penal Reform.

UN officials have begun inspecting an arms shipment found on a North Korean ship, Panama's security minister says.

Children born to obese and overweight mothers are more likely to die early of heart disease, a study suggests.

The basic rights of some mental health patients in England are being "violated" because of a shortage of beds in psychiatric units, MPs say.

Two women held in Peru over suspected drug trafficking have said they were forced at gunpoint to do it, a senior churchman who has visited them says.

The Taliban have kidnapped a female Afghan MP as she and her children were travelling in a rural area south of the capital Kabul, the authorities say.

Brazilian Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo says the pace of construction must be accelerated if stadiums are to be ready on schedule for the 2014 World Cup.