A rare protest by members of Portugal's armed forces against proposed pay and benefit cuts is held in Portugal's capital Lisbon.

Staff at a jail in Bolivia are surprised to find a woman police are searching for hiding inside their prison - in order to avoid being arrested.

Four men suspected of smuggling drugs are killed off the east coast of Nicaragua after a high-speed chase through Caribbean waters.

Ten years since the Taliban were driven from Kabul, Nato's ambassador says there have been big improvements in Afghanistan.

The helicopter crash which killed Mexican Interior Secretary Francisco Blake Mora was an accident, preliminary investigations show.

US Republican presidential hopefuls debate foreign policy, agreeing on blocking Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions, but differing on methods.

The US Major League baseball player, Wilson Ramos, who was kidnapped in Venezuela, talks about his ordeal and the dramatic rescue.

Brazilian police begin an operation to clear Rio de Janeiro's biggest shantytown of drug gangs, in preparation for the 2014 World Cup.