Frank Butler

For the first time a supercomputer based in the Middle East has entered the top rank of the most powerful computers on the planet.

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta has been charged in a long-running corruption investigation, prosecutors say.

Despicable Me spin-off Minions tops the US and Canada box office in its opening weekend, with the second biggest debut for an animated film.

Britain's James Ward breaks into the world's top 100 for the first time after reaching the third round of Wimbledon.

Part of a Russian military barracks collapsed killing 23 soldiers near the Siberian city of Omsk, officials say.

Scientists develop a way to interactively label objects.

A team of researchers unexpectedly discovers four extinct underwater volcanoes off the coast of Sydney in Australia.

Dozens of Chinese lawyers have been detained over recent days in what seems to be a co-ordinated roundup.

Eurozone leaders reach "agreement" with Greece on new debt deal, Belgian prime minister says, after marathon talks.

A suicide car bomb kills at least 25 people, mostly women and children, near a military base once used by the CIA in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.