One of Tunisia's best-known children's magazines is to be prosecuted for printing an article about how to make petrol bombs, officials say.

The US Supreme Court refuses to block an Ecuadorian court's ruling that oil firm Chevron pay billions in damages for pollution in the Amazon.

Brazil's Supreme Court on finds former President Inacio Lula da Silva's chief of staff guilty of corruption.

US officials say they had no actionable intelligence about last month's attack on their consulate in Libya, on the eve of a congressional hearing.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon praises the killing of the leader of the notorious Zetas drug cartel by marines, but does not mention the theft of Heriberto Lazcano's corpse by an armed gang.

For the first time ever, the US no longer has a majority of Protestants as the number of people with no religious affiliation rises, a study finds.

A Moscow court is set for the adjourned appeal hearing of three activists from punk band Pussy Riot, jailed for staging an anti-Kremlin protest in a cathedral.

Surgeons remove a bullet from the head of a teenage girl who had campaigned for girls' rights, a day after she was shot by the Pakistani Taliban.