IOC leaders dropped wrestling from the programme for the 2020 Olympics today, an official familiar with the decision told The Associated Press.

A 12-year-old boy has been charged with making prank calls that sent police to the home of Ashton Kutcher and to a Los Angeles bank. Prosec-utors allege that the boy called the police in October and said armed men were inside Kutcher’s Los Ange-les home.

New US secretary of state John Kerry and his South Korean counterpart have agreed to make sure North Korea is punished if it carries out its threat to conduct a nuclear test.

A Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban has made her first video statement since she was nearly killed, saying she is recovering. Speaking clearly but with a slight stiffness in her upper lip, 15-year-old Malala Yousefzai said that she was “getting better, day by day.”

It started with a traffic ticket. It ended in political exile.

Has Britain’s lost king been found? On Monday, scientists will announce the results of tests conducted to determine whether a battle-scarred skeleton found under a municipal parking lot in central England belongs to 15th-century King Richard III, the last British monarch to die in combat.

Syria threatened today to retaliate for an Israeli airstrike and its ally Iran said the Jewish state will regret the attack.

US regulators said today they asked Boeing Co to provide a full operating history of lithium-ion batteries used in its grounded 787 Dreamliners after Japan’s All Nippon Airways revealed it had repeatedly replaced the batteries even before overheating problems surfaced.

A Los Angeles elementary school teacher accused of sexually abusing 20 students and one adult was arrested, police said.

A Brazilian judge has ordered bookstores to ensure that the erotic trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey is out of the reach of minors.