Felicity Spector

A major victory for the anti-abortion movement as the Texas senate approves a sweeping new bill banning most abortions after 20 weeks – but opponents vow to fight back.

It was the case that divided America: a young black man shot dead by a neighbourhood watch volunteer who pleaded self defence. Will George Zimmerman now be acquitted of murder?

Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky might be dead – but that hasn’t stopped a Moscow court from finding him guilty of tax evasion in the country’s first posthumous trial.

New Yorkers are prepared to forgive: or are they? Former governor Eliot Spitzer is trying to return to politics – five years after he resigned amid a prostitution scandal. And he’s not alone.

New footage shows the moment the Boeing 777 crashed into the runway, bursting into flames – as investigators say it was travelling “significantly below” its target speed.

There’s a new front in the battle over abortion rights – Ohio – where sweeping restrictions have just come into force. And Texas takes up the debate again on a bill banning abortion after 20 weeks.

US President Barack Obama describes the deaths of 19 members of an elite firefighting force, killed as they battled wildfires in Arizona, as ‘heartbreaking’.

The brides kissed and supporters cheered – as California’s Attorney General presided over the first gay wedding in the state for more than four years – declaring the couple “spouses for life”.

She’s one of America’s highest earning celebrity chefs. But companies are rapidly cutting ties with the self-styled queen of southern cooking, Paula Deen, amid revelations that she used racial slurs.

The US Senate approves sweeping reforms to immigration with a path to citizenship for eleven million undocumented workers. But will one of Obama’s flagship policies be killed off in Congress?

In two historic rulings, the US Supreme Court strikes down the law defining marriage as strictly between men and women and allows gay marriages in California to go ahead.

What began as a protest over rising bus fares has become a far wider movement, bringing more than a million people on the streets of Brazil. How will the government respond?

The Florida-based Exodus International has shut its doors, after a dramatic apology by its leader – who said decades of trying to turn gay people straight had been wrong.

Buy one, get one free: shops are wooing consumers with offers and vouchers, pushing down the rise in food prices to their lowest in almost three years.

His opponents call him the sultan, and say he is intent on transforming Turkey’s secular state into an Islamic fiefdom. But amid widespread protests, which way will Turkey’s prime minister turn?