Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation reports a jump in quarterly profits, boosted by its cable networks and its Hollywood film unit.

Troubled Spanish lender Bankia is to be partly nationalised, the central bank confirms.

Police in western Mexico try to identify the remains of 15 people found dismembered and dumped in two cars in western Jalisco state.

Police in Honduras search for journalist Alfredo Villatoro. who was kidnapped only days after another journalist was found dead.

Tension remains high outside the La Planta jail in Venezuela, where hundreds of armed inmates began rioting 11 days ago.

The Olympic flame is to be lit in a ceremony in Olympia, Greece ahead of the start of the torch relay and the London 2012 Games.

A UN special envoy calls for a halt to the use of firearms on human rights activists in Cambodia after a string of violent incidents.

here has been intense shelling by the Syrian army overnight in the city of Homs, as UN monitors in thde city try to implement a ceasefire.