The Western nations are trying to create "total chaos" to break up Syria, the country's foreign minister tells the United Nations.

Accounting giant Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is sued for $7.6bn in the US and accused of failing to detect fraud, something Deloitte denies.

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn wants New York to drop a civil suit brought against him by the woman accusing him of sexual assault, claiming diplomatic immunity.

A high-ranking Nazi officer who helped develop a mobile gas chamber became a spy for West Germany after World War II, archives reveal.

The Washington Monument is to remain closed indefinitely to visitors, as engineers assess the damage to the iconic US obelisk caused by August's earthquake.

South Korea looks to increase its spending for the next financial year in a bid to boost job creation and domestic growth.

A man is arrested in Argentina on suspicion of planning the kidnapping and killing of an 11-year-old girl, Candela Rodriguez.

A US court jails the former chief of Bolivia's anti-narcotic police, Gen Rene Sanabria, for trafficking cocaine.