Japan's Yazaki Corporation and Denso Corporation agree to plead guilty for fixing prices of auto parts supplied to US manufacturers.

Hundreds of Bolivian protesters arrive in La Paz to demand the government resume work on a controversial road through an Amazon rainforest reserve.

Leading Senegalese opposition activist Alioune Tine is released without charge after two days in detention.

US President Barack Obama uses a public Google video chat to confirm that unmanned drones regularly target suspected militants in Pakistan's tribal areas.

Invasive Burmese pythons are the likely cause of a severe decline in mammals living in Florida's Everglades region, a study suggests.

Seven chemical company officials are detained over industrial waste that polluted a river in China's southern Guangxi region, state media reports.

Western governments send their foreign ministers to New York, with hope for a tough UN resolution on the crisis in Syria, as divisions remain in the Security Council.

The owner of a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre in the Peruvian capital Lima where a fire killed 27 people is charged with murder.