Guatemala's first lady, Sandra Torres, says she hopes to succeed her husband Alvaro Colom as president, despite a ban on relatives standing for election.

Security forces in the Yemeni capital Sanaa open fire on protesters calling for the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, injuring at least 50.

French police say they have found stolen jewellery worth 18m euros ($25m; £15m) hidden in a drain in a Paris suburb.

Mexico's youngest police chief, Marisol Valles Garcia, is seeking asylum in the US after apparently receiving death threats, immigration officials confirm.

Any decision to impose a no-fly zone over Libya should be made by the UN and not by Washington, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says.

Kyrgyz leader Roza Otunbayeva has received the prestigious US Women of Courage award, for her role in creating Central Asia's first parliamentary democracy.

A filmmaker who dressed up as Bigfoot sues the state of New Hampshire after park rangers told him he must have a permit to film up a mountain.

Twenty-one Roman Catholic priests are suspended in Philadelphia after the release of a legal report into allegations of child molestation.