Four armoured lorries, or narco-tanks, believed to belong to a drug cartel have been destroyed on the Mexico-US border, the Mexican army says.

Syria's government vows to deal "decisively" with the gunmen it blames for the deaths of 120 security personnel in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour.

Ban Ki-moon formally announces he will seek a second five-year term as secretary general of the United Nations.

EU agriculture ministers are to hold emergency talks, as efforts continue to find the source of an E.coli outbreak which has killed 22 people.

With more than 90% of the votes in the Peruvian presidential election run-off counted, right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori admits defeat to her leftist rival Ollanta Humala.

Energy ministers from the G20 countries are due to meet in Paris to discuss nuclear safety in the wake Japan's Fukushima disaster.

More than 60,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in central and southern China after continuous downpours caused heavy flooding.

At least 14 people are killed by raging flood waters in southern China's Guizhou province, following months of crop-destroying drought.