Twelve Mexican police officers are killed in an ambush as they search for the bodies of 10 people whose heads were found on Sunday.

Seven people are shot dead by gunmen at a pool hall and a neighbouring house in the northern Honduran city of La Ceiba, police say.

The Australian senate pushes through into law a 30% tax on iron ore and coal mining companies.

Ten Colombian soldiers and an officer are killed in an ambush by suspected Farc rebels in the south-east near the border with Venezuela.

France mounts a large-scale manhunt over deadly shootings at a Jewish school linked with the killings of soldiers, as marchers honour the victims.

The funeral is due to take place in Cairo of the Pope Shenouda, leader of the Coptic Church, who died on Saturday aged 88.

China raises the price of petrol by about 6% and diesel about 7% for the second time in 2012, as it seeks to off-set the rising cost of crude oil.

The US justice department launches an inquiry into the killing last month of black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, which caused protests.