Mexican police capture Jaime Herrera, who is accused of being a major producer of methamphetamine for the Sinaloa drugs cartel.

The Mormon Church apologises for the posthumous baptism of the long-dead parents of Holocaust survivor and Nazi-hunter activist Simon Wiesenthal.

Dramatic food price rises have forced millions of parents in the developing world to cut back on food for their children, says aid agency Save the Children.

Miniature tracking devices reveal the epic 30,000km migration of the diminutive northern wheatear.

Venezuela's opposition says it has destroyed voting records from Sunday's primary elections despite a Supreme Court order that they be preserved.

A joint House-Senate panel comes to a tentative agreement to pass a year-long extension of the payroll tax cut, ending weeks of uncertainty.

China's leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, defends his country's record on human rights, at the start of a week-long visit to the United States.

Papua New Guinea names 183 people still missing from the ferry disaster two weeks ago, in a list published in a national newspaper.