Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is mired in a fresh controversy over both real and fake photos showing him consoling relations of late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.

Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei announces plans to move into a new area of the arts, by releasing a debut album influenced by heavy metal music.

Cardinals gathered in Rome to elect a new pope will begin voting later on Tuesday, with no clear frontrunner in sight.

Five Americans from the Nato-led foreign forces in Afghanistan die in a helicopter crash blamed on a rainstorm, the US says.

The people of the Falkland Islands vote to remain a UK overseas territory, in a referendum held amid pressure from Argentina over its claims on the islands.

The former Ecuadorean presidential candidate and preacher Nelson Zavala is stripped of his political rights for a year for homophobic comments.

The US imposes sanctions on North Korea's primary foreign exchange bank and four individuals, amid escalating rhetoric from Pyongyang.

Voters go to the polls in Greenland on Tuesday, in an election dominated by the question of how the territory should exploit its mineral riches.