An ally of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been arrested on corruption claims, reports Iranian media, days after he was forced to quit as deputy foreign minister.

Two men are charged with plotting to attack a military recruiting station in Seattle with machine guns and grenades.

Eight suspected drug traffickers are killed during a raid by Brazilian police on a slum area in Rio de Janeiro.

China's foreign ministry says that artist and government critic Ai Weiwei is barred from leaving Beijing without permission, a day after being freed from detention.

The US tables a draft UN resolution proposing a peacekeeper deployment in the disputed Sudanese region of Abyei.

US Secretary of State Clinton condemns Syria's reported troop movements near the Turkish border and voices concern about the refugees there.

US regulators are preparing to issue court orders to Google and other companies as part of a probe into Google's business practices, US media report.

Judges at the UN-backed court for Rwanda are to hand down a verdict for the only woman to be charged with genocide before an international court.