CHINESE POLITICIAN'S WIFE DOESN'T CONTEST MURDER CHARGE
Gu Kailai, the wife of disgraced politician Bo Xilai, is accused of luring a British businessman to a hotel, getting him drunk and pouring poison into his mouth.
MAJOR U.S. DROUGHT, FOOD-PRICE HIKES FAN FEARS OF NEW CRISIS
Global alarm over a potential repeat of the 2008 food crisis has escalated after a six per cent jump in food prices as importers scrambled to buy U.S. grain.
POSTCARD FROM MARS: ROVER CURIOSITY SENDS MORE SWEEPING VISTAS
The photo-snapping rover Curiosity has dispatched the first 360-degree colour panorama of five-kilometrehigh Gale Crater.