Former environment minister and presidential candidate Marina Silva launches a new party, but still needs 500,000 signatures to register it officially.

Germany demands explanations from the online retailer Amazon after a documentary showed seasonal workers being harassed by security guards.

Four foreign nationals are arrested in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on suspicion of attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity.

Scientists will soon release the first batch of data from a project designed to create the first map showing the detailed connections in the human brain.

People in the Republic of Cyprus are set to vote for a new president, with polls suggesting centre-right leader Nicos Anastasiades will be victorious.

People in a small Japanese fishing port devastated by the 2011 tsunami have been receiving gold bars in the post from an anonymous benefactor.

Colombia's main left-wing rebel group, the Farc, releases a soldier it had held hostage for nearly three weeks, a day after freeing two policemen.

Thousands of people are married in South Korea in the first mass wedding organised by the Unification Church since the death of its founder.