The body of Italian national hero, Giuseppe Garibaldi, is to be exhumed, after his descendants cast doubt on its true location.

Police in southern Mexico hunt a man who shot dead four people celebrating the feast of St James the Apostle in the town of Huehuetan.

Two people charged with extorting singer Stevie Wonder over a video that portrays the singer negatively plead not guilty in a Los Angeles court.

The US says it fears Syrian forces are preparing to carry out a massacre in the country's most-populous city, Aleppo, as troops encircle it.

London Mayor Boris Johnson chides Republican Mitt Romney for suggesting London is not ready for the Olympics, a day before the opening ceremony.

Police in the Chilean capital, Santiago, find dozens of weapons and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition in a 74-year-old man's apartments.

Greek PM Antonis Samaras is set to meet international creditors to try to persuade them Athens deserves its final bailout instalment.

A Florida woman known as The Dutchess is charged with manslaughter over the death of a woman injected with toxic material during a buttock surgery.