Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez travels to Brazil on his first official visit abroad since he revealed that he had cancer, more than a year ago.

Australian police seize drugs worth A$500m (US$526m; £335m) and break up a Hong Kong-based drugs ring, with seven arrests made.

Twitter users criticise the network's suspension of a journalist's account after he published an NBC executive's work email address.

Mali risks sliding into "human rights chaos", with the military involved in extra-judicial killings, torture and sexual abuse, Amnesty International says.

Concern grows over conditions in the Syrian city of Aleppo as the army offensive continues, with a UN official warning that thousands of people are trapped.

US President Barack Obama orders new sanctions against Iran's oil and financial sectors, amid continuing concern over its nuclear programme.

Ann Pettway, who stole a newborn baby from a New York hospital in 1987 and raised her as her own, has been sentenced to 12 years in jail in the US.

Nine people are arrested and one dies in a Portuguese operation aimed at a ring trafficking hashish from Morocco to Spain, police say.