Canyon Scientists discover an 800km long canyon that is up to 800m deep in places beneath the ice sheet that covers Greenland.
Carver High School A 15-year-old student is shot and wounded at Carver High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S. An 18-year-old student is arrested and charged.
Lebanon Lebanon has charged five men, including a Syrian army officer and a Sunni cleric close to the Syrian government, over bomb attacks on two mosques in the northern city of Tripoli last week that killed at least 47 people
Lindsay Sandiford Indonesia's highest court has upheld the death sentence for Lindsay Sandiford, a British woman convicted of smuggling $2.5 million worth of cocaine into the resort island of Bali, a court official has said.
Seamus Heaney Poet Seamus Heaney from Northern Ireland, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, dies aged 74.
M23 rebel chief says fighters to withdraw from frontline of fighting in country's east, as violence spikes.
Protests in Cairo and other cities, led by supporters of deposed President Morsi, follow Friday prayers.
Syrian civil war U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the five permanent Security Council members that it may be two weeks before final results of an analysis of samples experts collected at the site of a chemical weapons attack last week in Syria are ready, diplomats said on Friday.
Damascus said Friday that a US intelligence report concluding that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons in an onslaught that killed close to 1,500 people was "entirely fabricated".
U.S Secretary of State John Kerry has said Syrian government forces killed 1,429 people in the chemical weapons attack last week.
The United Nations team of chemical weapons inspectors has headed out on the last day of its probe into a deadly poison gas attack in Syria.
Defence Secretary Hagel says US still building "international coalition", despite UK and Germany ruling out action.
British Prime Minister David Cameron says that a "robust response" to the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria is needed despite UK military action being ruled out.