The chairman of a charity protecting street children around the world is jailed for 30 years for sexually abusing young boys.

Britain, Germany and France urge fellow European Union countries to impose more sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme.

Mexican police find a large cache of weapons at a home in Hermosillo, in a search sparked by a nine-year-old boy taking a gun to school.

Sudan's army and rebels both claim victory in separate clashes in Darfur and South Kordofan, which reportedly left dozens of people dead.

US President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney take the debate over US unemployment to swing states, at the start of a two-month run-in to election day.

The family home of a British man who was shot dead in the Alps along with his wife and two other people is to be searched by police.

At least 80 people are now known to have died in a series of earthquakes in south-western China, as rescuers struggle to reach remote areas.

Mexican police say they have arrested a man accused of the killing of a US border agent in a botched US operation to track smuggled guns.