A teacher who mistakenly shot dead his 15-year-old adopted son says through a lawyer that his family is "broken in half".

Pakistan's Twenty20 team are being monitored by their cricket board in Sri Lanka to avoid a spot-fixing scandal.

Brazilian troops are deployed in some of Rio's poorest quarters to avoid voter intimidation on Sunday's municipal elections.

Georgia's governing party and the opposition both claim victory in the country's hotly disputed parliamentary elections.

A federal judge dismisses a case by an American Indian tribe blaming beer sellers and makers for its reservation's chronic alcoholism.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says he has prostate cancer and will undergo surgery to remove it on Wednesday.

The broadcast of a programme about a papyrus fragment that refers to Jesus having a wife is delayed as its authenticity is questioned.

Two women tourists kidnapped in north-eastern Ecuador while visiting a nature reserve near the border with Colombia are freed.