Incidents

A Philadelphia doctor Kermit Gosnell has been accused of performing thousands of illegal late-term abortions and murdering newborns after inducing labour, the agency reports.

A federal grand jury in Arizona indicted Jared Lee Loughner on Wednesday on charges of attempting to assassinate Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords and the attempted murder of two of her staff members, Reuters reported.

PetroChina's Fushun refinery was hit by a blast on Wednesday, the agency reports.

Berlusconi faces growing pressure over a prostitution probe in which he is suspected of paying to sleep with 17-year-old Karima El Mahroug at his private parties, the agency reports.

More than 1,000 infants - most of them girls - were killed or abandoned to die in Pakistan last year, the agency reports.

An 8,000lb elephant at a Tennessee zoo backed a trainer into a wall and crushed her to death, the agency reports.

A woman in Pavlodar left her one-year-old child in a taxi. The baby was in a taxi for an hour, the agency reports.

At least 93 members of a major drug trafficking group were detained in Russia's southern Urals republic of Bashkortostan on Wednesday, an official said, RIA Novosti reports.

A Turkish doctor detained for alleged links to an international organ-trafficking organization based in Kosovo was released Wednesday pending trial, HurriyetDailyNews reports.

A gang which trafficked mainly Afghan migrants into Europe has been broken, European police force Europol has said, BBC reports.