A judge rules against raising bail for George Zimmerman, charged with killing Trayvon Martin, despite receiving $200,00 from donors.

The authorities in Colombia say left-wing Farc rebels have killed eight people including a baby in two separate attacks in the south of the country.

Ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Khan says opponents planned his downfall from a sex scandal to stop his French presidential bid, days before the run-off.

A US jury convicts a Somali man of piracy for serving as a hostage negotiator in the hijacking of a US yacht where all four on board were killed.

Hundreds of indigenous Bolivians are on a second long march in protest at government plans to build a road through the Amazon rainforest.

The US Secret Service tightens rules on drinking and behaviour on foreign trips, as it battles with the fallout from a sex scandal in Colombia.

The United States agrees to move thousands of Marines based in Okinawa out of Japan to Hawaii, Guam and other locations in Asia.

A judge in the Netherlands upholds a new ban on foreign tourists entering Dutch cannabis cafes, in a bid to cut cross-border crime.