The runner-up in Mexico's presidential election, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, leaves the main left-wing coalition to form a new movement, amid a dispute over election results.

Campaigning US President Barack Obama gets a voter lift he is looking for - as he is raised off the ground in a bear hug by a supporter in Florida.

Japan revises down its growth numbers for the second quarter, raising concerns about a slowdown in the world's third-largest economy.

Somalia's parliament is due to start choosing a new president in Mogadishu, in the latest step to end decades of war.

The US is set to hand control of the controversial Bagram prison, housing 3,000 Taliban fighters and terror suspects, to the Afghan authorities.

The head of Chile's army apologises publicly for a directive instructing recruiters not to admit homosexuals and Jehovah's Witnesses.

A largely peaceful march in Chile to honour those who died in political persecution during General Pinochet's government ends in violence.

Prisoners in Chad are held in such inhumane conditions that "a prison sentence risks becoming a death sentence", Amnesty International warns.